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Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
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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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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A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.
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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
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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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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
Robert Anton Wilson
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
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Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
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Communication is only possible between equals.
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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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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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We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?
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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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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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There's a great universe just next door.
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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson