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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
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