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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
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Science Fiction Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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