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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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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Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
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Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.
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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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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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Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
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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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Is, is, is — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything is I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
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The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.
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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
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Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.
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The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
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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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Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).
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A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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