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Quote by Aldous Huxley
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character o

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters. – Aldous Huxley

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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. – 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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Modern mans besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions. – Aldous Huxley

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Organization is the enemy of improvisation. – Source Unknown

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Organizations that remain vital show their new employees that they are needed. At the same time, they never forget the value of their long-service employees. And they always give both a second chance. – Source Unknown

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The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up. – Harold R. McAlindon

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Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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