"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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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.

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