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Malcolm Muggeridge has 87 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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,…
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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
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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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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal…
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This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to…
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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…
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing…
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or…
— Maya Angelou
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In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer…
— Unknown Author
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
— Horace
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that…
— Andre Gide
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
— Alan Paton
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In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the…
— Konrad Lorenz
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