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Quotes from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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1 By eight o'clock the light was failing.
2 Two hundred and sixty-seven days at eight metres a day.
3 It took eight minutes for the tubes to go through, he told them.
4 He stood eight centimetres short of the standard Alpha height and was slender in proportion.
5 Eight identical Dravidian twins in khaki looked out of the eight portholes of the cabin--the stewards.
6 From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult.
7 At eight hundred feet Henry slowed down the helicopter screws, and they hung for a minute or two poised above the fading landscape.
8 By which time the original egg was in a fair way to becoming anything from eight to ninety-six embryos--a prodigious improvement, you will agree, on nature.
9 Liquid air, television, vibro-vacuum massage, radio, boiling caffeine solution, hot contraceptives, and eight different kinds of scent were laid on in every bedroom.
10 Showed them the simple mechanism by means of which, during the last two metres out of every eight, all the embryos were simultaneously shaken into familiarity with movement.
11 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.
12 Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued-up in front of the monorail station--seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them.
13 A few died; of the rest, the least susceptible divided into two; most put out four buds; some eight; all were returned to the incubators, where the buds began to develop; then, after two days, were suddenly chilled, chilled and checked.
14 Two, four, eight, the buds in their turn budded; and having budded were dosed almost to death with alcohol; consequently burgeoned again and having budded--bud out of bud out of bud were thereafter--further arrest being generally fatal--left to develop in peace.