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I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
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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All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.
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Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.
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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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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me
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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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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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It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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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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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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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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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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In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.
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