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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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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
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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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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
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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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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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Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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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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A true initiation never ends.
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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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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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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians the seducers become artists.
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My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.
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