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Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes: In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
         

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.


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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.



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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.



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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.



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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.



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God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.



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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.



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In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.



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I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.



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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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