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Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
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I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.
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And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children sometimes like the noise of lambs.
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside they're on the premises, all the time.
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In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.
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In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
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I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.
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The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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Nothing short of everything will really do.
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