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The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
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 think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
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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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