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My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

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 look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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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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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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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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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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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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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
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