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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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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The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.
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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
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He who lives happiest has forgotten most
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.
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It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called barbarism and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
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I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
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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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