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| Alpha; Doesn't fit in; Different beliefs about everything; Insecure |
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| Alpha; The stat guy; One of Leninas lover |
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| Beta; Nurse in Hatchery Center; purple eyes; uncommonly pretty |
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| The world controller; middle-height; black hair; hooked nose; full red lips; dark eyes |
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| Alpha; DHC; Tall and thin; Horse teeth; Long chin; Nobody knows how old he is |
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| Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, Epsilons |
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| One egg can divide up to 96 times, to mass production |
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| Putting the embryos in the pig skin bottles |
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| Where the children are created and conditioned |
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| Conditioning (Neo-Pavlovian) |
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| Sleep teaching, shock therapy |
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| Taking the babies out of the bottle |
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| The birth outside of the human body |
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| When the human sex cells are united |
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| The "question marks" - not exactly male but not exactly female; 70 percent of females are like this |
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| The accelerated ripening process for the eggs |
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| Alpha; Lecturer at the college of emotional engineering; feels his work is meaningless; disconnected from world state |
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“It suddenly struck me the other day that it might be possible to be an adult all the time. I know you
don’t. And that’s why we went to bed together yesterday - Like infants - Instead of being adults and
waiting.” |
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“When it’s you who were the cause of it all. Refusing to come to my party and so turning them all
against me!” |
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“And I had six girls last week … One on Monday, two on Tuesday, two more on Friday, and one more
on Saturday.” |
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| “And, anyhow, hadn’t you better wait till you actually see the new world?” |
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| “I wonder if you’d like to come back to London with us.” |
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“He was ashamed of his jealousy and alternately made efforts of will and took soma to keep himself
from feeling it. But the efforts were not very successful…” |
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| “Well you must preserve…Nothing can be achieved without perseverance” |
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| “Perhaps you need a pregnancy substitute” |
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“…the first thing they all want to know is what it’s like to make love to a savage. And I have to say I
don’t know" |
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| “But how can they live like this?” |
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| “But he’s the one I want.” |
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| “Because, you see, Fanny, I like him.” |
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| “If I didn’t like you so much,” she said, “I’d be furious with you” |
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| “Ow, you’re hurting me, you’re…oh!” She was suddenly silent. Terror made her forget the pain. |
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| “Hug me till you drug me, honey” |
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| “Kiss me till I’m in a coma. Hug me, honey, snuggly…” |
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“Did you ever feel as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a
chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using- you know, like all the water that
goes down the falls instead of though the turbines?” |
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“Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane,
excruciating things to get excited about. You’ve got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can’t think of
the real good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. But fathers and mothers!” |
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“I wanted to do a bit of propaganda. I was trying to engineer them into feeling as I felt when I wrote the
rhymes.” |
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| “Helmholtz listened to his boastings in a silence so gloomily disapproving… “I’m rather sad, that’s all.” |
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“As though I were just beginning to have something to write about. As though I were beginning to be
able to use that power I feel I’ve got inside me- that extra, latent power. Something seems to be coming
to me.” |
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“ Ladies and gentlemen… excuse me for this interrupting your labours. A painful duty constrains me.
The security and stability of society are in danger. Yes, in danger, ladies and gentlemen. This
man…this man who stands before you here, this Alpha-plus to whom so much has been given, and from
whom in consequence, so much has been expected, this colleague? Has grossly betrayed the trust
imposed on him…” |
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“Stability,” “stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability
without individual stability.”“Stability,” said the Controller, “stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability
without individual stability.” |
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| “How much I love you, Lenina.” |
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| “I wanted to do something first… I mean, to show I was worthy of you.” |
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He stood for a moment in frozen silence, then fell on his knees beside the bed and, covering his
face with his hands, sobbed uncontrollably |
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| “Not until … Listen, Lenina; in Malpais people get married.” |
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| “But do you like being slaves?” “Do you like being babies?” |
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| “To think it should be coming true-what I’ve dreamt of all my life.” |
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“I wanted to do something first… I mean, to show I was worthy of you. Not that I could ever really be
theat. But at any rate, to show I wasn’t absolutely un-worthy. I had to do something." |
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| “Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.” |
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| “WHORE!” he shouted. “WHORE! Impudent strumpet!” |
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| “Quick! Something’s happened. I’ve killed her” |
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“He stood for a moment in frozen silence, then fell on his knees beside the bed and, covering his
face with his hands, sobbed uncontrollably” |
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| “If ones different, ones bound to be lonely…" |
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| “I’m not your mother. I won’t be your mother.” |
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| “You made me have a baby.” |
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| “It wasn’t my fault, Tomakin. Because I always did my drill, didn’t I?" |
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| “I’m rather different from most people, I suppose. If one happens to be decanted different…” |
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| “And if I’d had the time or the inclination, there were at least a dozen more who were only too anxious…” |
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| “The savage, shows surprisingly little astonishment at, or awe of, civilized inventions.” |
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“partly on his interest being focused on what he calls ‘the soul’, which he persists in regarding as an entity
independent of the physical environment, whereas, as I tried to point out to him…” |
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| “I shall be seeing him, talking to him, telling him…” |
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| “that I like him-more than anybody I’ve ever know. And then perhaps he’ll say…” |
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| “But, John…I thought you were…I mean, aren’t you?…” |
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| "but i thought it was lovely.." |
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| “You can’t expect me to keep a straight face about mothers and fathers” |
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| “I’m rather sad, that’s all.” |
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“I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that: one can’t simply write really well
about anything else” |
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| "Ford helps those who help themselves" |
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“I feel” he said, after a silence, “ as though I were just beginning to have something to write about. As
though I were beginning to be able to use that power I feel I’ve got in side of me” |
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| “And who’s going to get excited about a boy having a girl or not having her" |
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“We can make a new one with the greatest ease—as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life
of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself...” |
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| “It is better that one should suffer then that many should be corrupted” |
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| “can you give me any reason why I should not now execute the judgment passed upon you?” |
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pha Mond
“What fun it would be,” he thought, “if one didn’t have to think about happiness!” |
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| “It’s prohibited, you see. But as I make the laws here, I can also break them.” |
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“But that’s the price we have to pay for stability. You’ve got to choose between happiness and what
people used to call high art.” |
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