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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
Autobiographer
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Journalist
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London
England
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Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.
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He was not only a bore he bored for England.
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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
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The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.
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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me
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Higher education is booming in the United States the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
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The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.
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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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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 hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.
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