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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
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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Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
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Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
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I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….
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Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians the seducers become artists.
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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).
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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called barbarism and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.
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Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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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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