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Quote by Aldous Huxley
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. – Aldous Huxley

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The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. – Aldous Huxley

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. – Aldous Huxley

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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… Im human, not perfect, like anybody else. – Queen Latifah

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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Thats not to say that womens priorities are better than mens. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit. – Dee Dee Myers

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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. – T. S. Eliot

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Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nations standing worldwide… and our teachers know that. – Solomon Ortiz

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