In 1894, English novelist Aldous Huxley, author of "Brave New World, " was born in Godalming, England.

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The concept of Teens and Toddlers was invented by Laura Huxley, widow of the novelist Aldous Huxley.

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The city has boasted an impressive colony of writers ever since, for their various reasons, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, Bertold Brecht and F.

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Snow was worrying about the two cultures, Aldous Huxley was actually living, and trying to resolve, the enduring tensions between science and art.

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Other writers who fulfill this paradigm for me: Graham Greene (Our Man in Havana), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell (1984) all instantly came to mind.

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Maslow helped a bit by giving a list of people he felt had reached self-actualisation: Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, William James, Albert Schweitzer, Benedict Spinoza and Aldous Huxley, as well as 12 unnamed people alive at the time Maslow did his research.

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