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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

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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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Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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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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But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
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