Quote by Aldous Huxley
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed t

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. – Aldous Huxley

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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. – Aldous Huxley

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Men
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. – Aldous Huxley

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Beauty
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The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. – Aldous Huxley

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Its astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies. – Yiddish Proverb

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Death

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. – Deepak Chopra

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Death

It is impossible to experience ones death objectively and still carry a tune. – Woody Allen

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Death

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. – Daniel Barenboim

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Death

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. – Andrea Dworkin

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Those playful fancies of the mighty sky. – Albert Smith (clouds)

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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. – Thomas Sowell

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good

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world – out of six billion people, more than three billion – do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. – Muhammad Yunus

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finance