"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.“

-Malcolm Muggeridge

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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."

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"Travel, of course, narrows the mind."

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"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it."

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"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."

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

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"Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it."

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