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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.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Dread
Inevitable
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Europe
Longer
Results
American
Acceleration
World
Domination

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