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“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.” quote by Susan Sontag — Download Open image

““Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.””

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the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

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