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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
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 fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
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If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
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The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
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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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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.
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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's a great universe just next door.
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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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Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, the priest added cynically, which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.
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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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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 secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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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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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
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I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….
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Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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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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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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