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I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.
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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O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
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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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If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
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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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Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
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