Quote by Aldous Huxley
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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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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. – Aldous Huxley

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Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air? – Mary Baker Eddy

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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. – Daniel Webster, Remarks on Agriculture

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[M]odern man is just ancient man – with way better electronics. – Author unknown, “A Short History of Breakfast,” from a Jack in the Box tray line

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When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. – Lois McMaster Bujold

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