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History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
Autobiographer
Editor
Journalist
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London
England
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
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