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There's a great universe just next door.

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Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
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The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.
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The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
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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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It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
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A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).
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I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
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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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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
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We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe
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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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Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
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My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.
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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
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Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.
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Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.
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Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.
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