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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
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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There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
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It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
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The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
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Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.
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A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
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