nakedness

Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect
much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are
as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. - Bacon

Expressing the idea in the most general form, the main promise lying
at the root of this method is as follows: the child, in mastering
himself (his behaviour), goes on the whole in the same way as he does
in mastering external nature, e.g. by technical means. The man masters
himself externally, as one of the forces of nature by means of a
special cultural 'technic of signs'. - Vygotsky

pay it all back

The people that are staffing these intelligence agencies are ordinary
people, like you and me. They're not moustache-twirling villains that
are going, "ah ha ha that's great", they're going: "You're right. That
crosses a line but you really shouldn't say something about that
because it's going to end your career."

"The public should not know about these programmes. The public should
not have a say in these programmes and, for God's sake, the press had
better not learn about these programmes or we will destroy you."

korova's corona

"Then came the discovery that adrenochrome, which is a product of the
decomposition of adrenalin, can produce many of the symptoms observed
in mescalin intoxication. But adrenochrome probably occurs
spontaneously in the human body. In other words, each one of us may be
capable of manufacturing a chemical, minute doses of which are known
to cause profound changes in consciousness." -- Huxley