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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
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Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
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As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us As God alone, He would not Made flesh, He could and did.
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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
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It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.
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All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me
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An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
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The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.
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I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
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