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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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 think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
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The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.
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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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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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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
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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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Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know all about the rest of space-time.
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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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A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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Communication is only possible between equals.
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The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
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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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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.
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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 know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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