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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.

— Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception (1954)

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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

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