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If you want to be happy, practise it every day

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Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
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Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?
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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
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Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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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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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
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