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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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They're old they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now But God doesn't change Men do though
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Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
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The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.
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