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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

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
England
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
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I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama
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Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.
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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
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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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In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.
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A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
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