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

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

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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."

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