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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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Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.
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Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.
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I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
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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 think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.
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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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People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses.
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Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.
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Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.
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The most important thing you do in your life is to die.
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Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.
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By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.
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The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same amino-acid seeding that have evolved in other solar systems. The mission is the message--to escape and come home.
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Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.
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We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.
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