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• Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
  -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World...
• Your America is doing many things in the economic field which we found out caused us so much trouble.
  You are trying to control people's lives. And no country can do that part way....
• Choice is an illusion. In reality, our lives are controlled by the society in which we live.
• One useless man can be called a disgrace. Two really useless men can be called a law firm.
  When you get more than these together, you have all the essential ingredients for a committee....
• And no philosophy, sadly, has all the answers. No matter how assured we may be about certain aspects of our belief, there are always painful inconsistencies, exceptions, and contradictions.
  This is true in religion as it is in politics, and is self-evident to all except fanatics and the naive....
• The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
  We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far....
• The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St.
  Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable....
• If you can believe ten impossible things before breakfast, then you should joi
  The Church of Counterfactual Belief The Church of Counterfactual Belief has been set up to cater to all who don't allow demonstrable truth to get in the way of their beliefs....
• If you can believe ten impossible things before breakfa
  hen you should join THE CHURCH OF COUNTERFACTUAL BELIEF The Church of Counterfactual Belief has been set up to cater to all who don't allow demonstrable truth to get in the way of their beliefs....