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Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.
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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
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If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
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