“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
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“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’
‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.
‘Quite so…”
― Brave New World
‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.
‘Quite so…”
― Brave New World
“We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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