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Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
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Robert Edward Wilson
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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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The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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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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Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
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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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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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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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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 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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Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
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Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.
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Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
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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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