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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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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I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.
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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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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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If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.
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Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).
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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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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
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It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
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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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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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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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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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