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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
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Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
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Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.
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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
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There's a great universe just next door.
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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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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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