"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." -- English philosopher and author Aldous Huxley (7/26/1894 - 11/22/1963), from his "A Case of Voluntary Ignorance" in Collected Essays (1959). The author of such classics as "Brave New World" and "The Doors of Perception," Huxley also found some success as a screenwriter in Hollywood, with Pride and Prejudice (1940), Madame Curie (1943), and Jane Eyre (1944) to his credit. He used some of his income from his screenwriting to help evacuate Jewish and progressive artists from Europe and Hitler's Germany.
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