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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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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.
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Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
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When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
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Everyone belongs to everyone else.
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In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals it cannot be mass-produced.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
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This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
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The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
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