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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
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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Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.
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I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
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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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Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?
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The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.
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If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
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The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
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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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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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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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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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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
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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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