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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.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
Autobiographer
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Journalist
Writer
London
England
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
Painted
Savages
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Seemed
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Bertrand
Truth
Russell
Always
Einstein
Nearer

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