What a hideous colour khaki is

Aldous Huxley

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Experience is not what happens to you;
it's what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley


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Community, Identity, Stability

Aldous Huxley

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One egg, one embryo, one adult - normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where one grew before. Progress.

Aldous Huxley

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He rubbed his hands. For, of course, they didn't content themselves with merely hatching out embryos: any cow could do that.
"We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future..." He was going to say "future World Controllers", but correcting himself, said "future Directors of Hatcheries" instead.

Aldous Huxley

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Pilkington, at Mombasa, had produced individuals who were sexually mature at four and full grown at six and a half. A scientific triumph. But socially useless. Six-year-old men and women were too stupid to do even Epsilon work. And the process was an all-or-nothing one; either you failed to modify at all, or else you modified the whole way. They were still trying to find the ideal compromise between adults of twenty and adults of six. So far without success. Mr Foster sighed and shook his head.

Aldous Huxley

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Věcí vlády je zasedat, nikoli mlátit. Vládne se hlavou a zadkem, nikoli pěstí.

Aldous Huxley

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And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn.

Aldous Huxley

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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Aldous Huxley

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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

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