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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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Words can be like X-rays if used properly: they pass through everything. You read them and they pierce you. This is one of the things I try to teach my students: to write in a penetrating manner.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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I wanted to change the world. But I have discovered that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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The one who wants to do good to the human race always ends up in universal intimidation.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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The greatest difficulties of man begin when he can do what he wants.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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Imagination is generous and selfless; intelligence calculates and clings to whatever it can.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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Along with being right, in this world, it's best to be clear and definitively wrong.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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It is a fact that man has to control science and occasionally check the progress of technology.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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The birth of science was the death of superstition.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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Society differs from nature in that it pursues a defined moral purpose.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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The outcomes of political changes are rarely what their friends expect or their enemies fear.

Juana de Ibarbourou

Juana de Ibarbourou

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Childhood is the stage when all men are creators.