Boy's Life
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My heart was saying If you were my girlfriend I would give you a hundred lightning bugs in a green glass jar, so you could always see your way. I would give you a meadow full of wildflowers, where no two blooms would ever be alike. I would
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“And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“The truth, unfortunately, is that mild-mannered, regular people really made the best Nazis. They obeyed all laws. They didn’t question authority. They didn’t rock the boat, lest attention be drawn to themselves.”
― The House from Hell: The True Story of Gertrude Baniszewski One of America’s Most Notorious Torture Mom
― The House from Hell: The True Story of Gertrude Baniszewski One of America’s Most Notorious Torture Mom
“The Moon Man just grinned. “My wife,” he said. “She one craaaaazy old lady.”
― Boy's Life
― Boy's Life
“My heart was saying If you were my girlfriend I would give you a hundred lightning bugs in a green glass jar, so you could always see your way. I would give you a meadow full of wildflowers, where no two blooms would ever be alike. I would give you my bicycle, with its golden eye to protect you. I would write a story for you, and make you a princess who lived in a white marble castle. If you would only like me, I would give you magic. If you would only like me.”
― Boy's Life
― Boy's Life
“Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too—all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides—made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions!” The Director almost shouted in his triumph. “Suggestions from the State.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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