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The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.

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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Robert Edward Wilson
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Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know all about the rest of space-time.
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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
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It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.
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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
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I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)
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