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Quotes from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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1 Long years of superfluous and wasted immaturity.
2 Six years later it was being produced commercially.
3 It's supposed to have been there for hundreds of years.
4 Within six years they were having a first-class civil war.
5 In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions.
6 Every man, woman and child compelled to consume so much a year.
7 For in nature it takes thirty years for two hundred eggs to reach maturity.
8 Anyhow,' he said, 'they've been doing it for the last five or six thousand years.
9 They could make sure of at least a hundred and fifty mature eggs within two years.
10 They had heard the words repeated a hundred and fifty times every night for twelve years.
11 The principle had been discovered; but many, many years were to elapse before that principle was usefully applied.
12 In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training.
13 They say that it is the fear of death and of what comes after death that makes men turn to religion as they advance in years.
14 Twenty-two years eight months and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha-Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis--the first case for over half a century.
15 Fertilize and bokanovskify--in other words, multiply by seventy-two--and you get an average of nearly eleven thousand brothers and sisters in a hundred and fifty batches of identical twins, all within two years of the same age.
16 In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the focussed attention of scientists intent on a labour of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game.