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The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
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Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts his faith becomes theology his love becomes lechery his wisdom becomes science pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.
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The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.
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