Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. -Malcolm Muggeridge

 

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.


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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

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The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

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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 making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. -Malcolm Muggeridge
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. -Malcolm Muggeridge
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.

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