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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke. ↗

— Peta Wilson

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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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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. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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