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The PC is the LSD of the '90s.

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Timothy Leary
Age: 75 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 22
Died: 1996
Died: May 31
Actor
Psychologist
Writer
Springfield
Massachusetts
Timothy Francis Leary

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Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.
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Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
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Anything is possible after midnight.
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My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
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We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.
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To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.
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The universe is an intelligence test.
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By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.
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I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.
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In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.
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Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
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Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
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Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.
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In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
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A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
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I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.
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You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
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Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.
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I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology.
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If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
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