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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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