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"Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas-that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to be capable (within limits) of making a free choice and assuming responsibilities. Imagine it!"
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"Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term. We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people; rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people. After all, half those new people we go on to create are also women - presumably themselves to be judged, in their futures, for not making new people. And so it will go on and on..."
"We are always - always- in choice."
"Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. More important -- don't let him try to change you. He can't do it either, but men always try."
"Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her."
"First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen."
"My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it."
"It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera."
"Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence."
"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done."
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
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