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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
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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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.
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The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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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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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians the seducers become artists.
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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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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
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Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.
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The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
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A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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There's a great universe just next door.
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I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
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Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
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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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