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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.
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Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
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I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.
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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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Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!
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