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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
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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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
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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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An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
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In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.
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Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.
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God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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All new news is old news happening to new people
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.
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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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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.
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