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It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
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 individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
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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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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
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There's a great universe just next door.
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
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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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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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The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
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The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
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