"We all tend to be greedy end-gainers, paying no attention to our means whereby."
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Quoted in The Art of Seeing by Aldous Huxley (1942), p. 88
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F. Matthias Alexander
Frederick Matthias Alexander (20 January 1869 – 10 October 1955) was an Australian actor who developed the educational process that is today called the Alexander Technique: a form of education that is applied to recognize and overcome reactive, habitual limitations in movement and thinking.
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