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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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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation…
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide…
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Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear;…
— Bruce Barton
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Whatever you say, say it with conviction
— Mark Twain
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Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never…
— Douglas Bader
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After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend
— Unknown Author
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When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.
— Ian Macfarlane
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There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is…
— Alexander Kotov
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You are valued more than you know, by more people than you think. It might be good to get in touch today…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.
— Cass Gilbert
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
— Jesse Jackson
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one…
— Jack Nicklaus
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