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Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

Aldous Huxley

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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
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Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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