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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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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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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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In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)
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Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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There is no complete theory of anything.
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He who lives happiest has forgotten most
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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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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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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, the priest added cynically, which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.
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The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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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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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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