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Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
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London
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Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
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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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I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
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