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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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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
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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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Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
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