Quote by Aldous Huxley
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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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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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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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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. – Oscar Wilde

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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death. – Taylor Caldwell

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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. – Leonardo DaVinci

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When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. – Morihei Ueshiba

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