"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
-Aldous Huxley
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"Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.“
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"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image."
-Aldous Huxley
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"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."
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"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood."
-Aldous Huxley
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"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
-Aldous Huxley
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"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."
-Aldous Huxley
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"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
-Lord John Russell
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
-Francis Hutcheson
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
-Stanford Moore
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
-John Bigelow
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