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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
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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Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.
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