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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
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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I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)
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Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.
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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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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
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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 easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
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The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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Is, is, is — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything is I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
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