A man may have strong ...

A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.
A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.
 Aldous Huxley

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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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