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A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
Autobiographer
Editor
Journalist
Writer
London
England
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
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Shuns
Decrepit
Drafts
Humor
Society

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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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Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.
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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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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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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me
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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
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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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The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.
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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
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I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question Why?
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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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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
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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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