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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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Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
— C.S. Lewis
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We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.
— Robert Kelly
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Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride…
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we…
— Franz Kafka
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Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is…
— Pema Chodron
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We don't choose what's going to wake us up.
— Dani Shapiro
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It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks…
— Joanna Macy
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Love for children is the enormous untapped power that can wake us up to the profound changes we need to make if…
— Raffi
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There is no intellectual road to God...No, we need God to wake us up to our need of a Savior.
— Alistair Begg
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