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Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).
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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You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.
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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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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe
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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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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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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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I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.
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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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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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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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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
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