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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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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The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
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The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
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Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall
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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
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Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
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Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?
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My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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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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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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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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