Quote by Aldous Huxley
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for dome

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley

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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. – Aldous Huxley

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The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. – Carol Matthau

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

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Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. – Hervey Allen

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Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. – Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva

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In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didnt have the rights to the movie. I couldnt duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement. – Jan de Bont

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