Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
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The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.
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I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama.
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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
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It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
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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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I don't like seeing people angry.
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I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class structure, is making a mistake, and the task of those who are responsible for the conduct of the monarchical institution is to detach it from that class structure.
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I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.
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The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.
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The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.
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It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.
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It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.
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I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.
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The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.
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I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.
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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.