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From: Redlands Daily Facts
Date: 20050622
Author:SCOTT MOORE Redlands High School

Aldous Huxley once said, "Experience is not what happens to a man, but what a man does with what happens to him."

When looking for a senior quote, we all look for something different: a reflection of our character, a compilation of our beliefs, a statement of individuality, or something that just sounds intelligent. My reason for choosing Huxley? Well, at first I just wanted to sound like an inexhaustible supply of profundities, but after I sent my quote off to the beloved yearbook, I began to think, what did Huxley want the world to think of when he talked about experience? That is why I am ...

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