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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
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Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.
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I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
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A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
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Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
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People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
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It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
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Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space you travel through time and thought as well.
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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
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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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Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
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The flower of the present rosily blossomed.
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I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
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