Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
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Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.
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Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.
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I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
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The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
