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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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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If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
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under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.
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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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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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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
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I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)
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Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
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Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.
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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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