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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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People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses.
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The most important thing you do in your life is to die.
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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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If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
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I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.
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Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D.
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Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
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The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution.
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Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.
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One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.
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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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You are a God Act like one!
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Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization.
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Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.
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The universe is an intelligence test.
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Human beings have a right to change their consciousness, and it is unconscionable and absolutely wrong for any government or any person to stand in the way of someone choosing to change their consciousness.
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Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.
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The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly
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My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.
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When you get the message, hang up the phone.
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