"Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets.……" — Aldous Huxley
"Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation."
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Aldous Huxley
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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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