Extremes,' said the Controller, 'meet. For the good reason that they were made to meet.


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'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
THOMAS HOOD
Extremes meet.
LOUIS SEBASTIAN MERCIER
Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...
DENNIS GABOR
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to ...
JOSHUA SLOCUM
I did meet with him. I said he had made a mistake and that people were talking about recalling him.
BOB DAY
They have both done really well. (In this meet), they hit all their routines, minus beam. For whatev...
BRANDY SWAGER
Some people meet you for a reason, while others meet you to stay there in your life.
AKANSH MALIK
My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH
A letter from the organ center and they said that the family wanted to meet.
LARRY LATHAM
Those two runs we made were huge when you look at the final score. We knew how big they were inside ...
CRAIG HAASE
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
But God doesn’t change.’
'Men do, though.’
'What difference does that make?’
...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
I think Manny knows that we have made a good faith effort to meet his ... request.
JED HOYER
But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated.
"Why one makes such a fuss ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
This will be good for them to get some big meet experience. This meet didn't tell me much. I know th...
DAN WINZENRIED
It's a very low-pressure thing. It's a chance for people to have a good time and maybe meet someone ...
ELVIS DURAN
It's a nice place to come for a first meet. It was a good meet.
CHARLES SCHAFER
And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for hi...
BIBLE
The visit went pretty good. I got to meet players and coaches and see how they were going to use me.
DUKE CALHOUN
Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.'
AUDREY MEADOWS
For their sadness was a symptom of their love for one another—
ALDOUS HUXLEY
They were cheering for each other and holding blocks and carrying sweats. The team aspect was really...
AARON NIDA
They were slower today with the heat and the fact that this is our fourth meet in 10 days. We kinda ...
DALE PHILLIPS
It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ...
KEVIN KWAN
I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN
As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and biza...
MEI FONG
We felt going into the meet that we had a good chance at winning. We didn't slow down in training at...
BRIAN GRACA
There's no reason to be otherwise...I think that the kids that come around, it's so nice to meet the...
JOHNNY DEPP
I want to give kudos for Nintendo for its attempt at innovation with the new controller, ... bring p...
PETER MOORE
There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the press...
STEPHEN COVEY
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, n...
C.S. LEWIS
Nice to meet ya, shank," the boy said. "Welcome to the Glade.
JAMES DASHNER
My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
WILL ROGERS
The relay team was ranked sixth going in, so they performed where they were supposed to. We were hop...
DANA SCHWARTING
I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices...
ANDRé GIDE
The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I final...
ANDREW ADAMSON
The waiter approached.
'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet th...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI
Floor was awesome. We were really clean. Overall, I thought it was a really good meet for us.
JACQUE BARTOW
It was pretty much the same as last week's meet with me and Wayne and Kelso. It was good for us to g...
CAMERON GRANT
It was an overall good meet for us.
BUZZ STEVENSON
Parallel lines meet at infinity. Looking back from said point, do parallel lines ever not meet?
RJ CLAWSON
This is my first varsity meet but it felt pretty good to win that. This is a pretty big meet.
COLE CONWAY
Sometimes
you meet people and know immediately
that they were meant to be your friend.
ALISON G. BAILEY
Graham ran well. He got ninth against some stiff competition. There were 18 teams for the boys and a...
ANDY HOLT
It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.
NORMAN WISDOM
I will have a good idea of where we are after the first meet. We can start building on that first me...
BOB ROSNICK
Good people need to meet good people.
PETER STROPLE
The reason she stopped by the congressman's office was because I interned there and she would come t...
JENNIFER BAKER (INTERN)
We went into this meet missing five girls due to illness or injury. We didn't know really how we wou...
DAVE RANDGAARD
They were picked to win the division for good reason. They know how to win.
HENRY DICKERSON
Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.
ROBERT BRAULT
Quite a few people were asking questions about her after the meet. They thought she was older than t...
BRIAN WEAVER
When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the ...
BIBLE
We really are in good shape for sectionals. It appears that we will advance everyone to the district...
KYLE GOODRICH
Stay at peace with everyone you meet and hold no grudge with anyone for any reason.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Boyertown has a really good team, a lot of swimmers that are very good, we've been talking this meet...
MITCH SCHERER
We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa...
NEIL POSTMAN
This is amazing. We had a meet at Winter Haven where the skies were black and it never rained, anoth...
JEN GOSLINE
When the AFA said that Ford was going to meet their demands, Ford was surprised. They told the AFA o...
LESLIE THOMPSON
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn a...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn a...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
We had a really good meet. Our runners who ran at this meet last year, they had just as fast of time...
ERIC HUNT
We've made a lot of really good progress lately; things are moving along well. We're optimistic we'l...
DEBORAH GALLOWAY
This is an executive of the government out of control. Where does this stop? The government is reach...
BILL GINSBURG
Clary,” Jocelyn said. “I want you to meet Tessa Gray.
CASSANDRA CLARE
Gill ran a good race. That's very good for him to place in this meet.
BRAD BEVIS
This meet was kind of like of a workout meet. A meet to help prepare us for next week.
LACLAIRE CARTER
If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someo...
CARLY PATTERSON
The prom is a good way to meet new members.
ADAHLIA SUICIDE
Uno cree las cosas porque ha sido acondicionado para creerlas.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
They also have year-round swimmers, and they give us some good competition. We expect to have anothe...
JULIE WITHINGTON
We're pleased. It was a good meet to get us ready for the states next week.
FRANK BARBUTO
It's for kids who just want to have fun, who may not be sports-oriented. It's for everybody, no matt...
KAREN GRANT
Hopefully, Japan will meet the commitment it made earlier in the year.
HAROLD CREEL
Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.
NINA DE GRAMONT
[Thomas] had a good meet. He trained well over the break and set some personal records at the New Ha...
MICK WESTKOTT
I wanted to come back for the last home meet (second weekend in February) and I qualified for the st...
CARRIE BURGGRAF
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
FRANK HERBERT
They say there is always a reason why God makes you meet another person. But the problem is girls do...
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI
Let's take the good times as they go, and I'll meet you further on up the road...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for y...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS
I wasn't asked to go, and I'm not one to just show up, ... I've since been told that it's dangerous ...
MICHAEL STERN
No good sittin’ worryin’ abou’ it,” he said. “What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll m...
J.K. ROWLING
No good sittin' worryin' abou' it," he said. "What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it doe...
J.K. ROWLING
I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the ru...
JEANNETTE WALLS
It was a good meet for a lot of young kids.
BRIAN MARTZ
They meet the IUCN [World Conservation Union] criteria for being critically endangered.
JENNIFER DEVINE
They let me meet him. They let me get my picture made with him. I will never forget it.
KAREN SHEMONSKY
This was another step for us. We made more progress getting ready for the Big Sky meet. Erin had a v...
DALE KENNEDY

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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’...
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I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...
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The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
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Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
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A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
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If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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