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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#been #beings #believe #believing #century

I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called “culture” – and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species. ~ Through the local or regional, through our individual voices, we work to create art that will speak to others who know nothing of us. In our very obliqueness to one another, an unexpected intimacy is born. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#writing-philosophy #writing-process #art

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#best #cosmopolitan #degree #doing #good

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#bad #bad rap #enjoy #gets #here

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque. ↗

— Martin Mull

#every #funny #gets #going #i

Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy. ↗

— Kate Mulgrew

#compute #does #levels #life #me

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts. ↗

— Max Muller

#breathe #dash #deep #follows #forgotten

'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens. ↗

— Ellen Muth

#answer #asks #die #everyone #find

Actors talking about themselves. Nothing better! ↗

— Megan Mullally

#better #nothing #talking #themselves

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information. ↗

— Michael Mullen

#apparatus #classified #classified information #full #got