Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.
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I'm very self-critical.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
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Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.
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I was involved with some great things in television that I could never have done in film.
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Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.
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Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.
