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We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.

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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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LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.
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Man's best friend is his dogma.
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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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Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.
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Give death a better name or die trying.
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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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LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
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Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
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When you get the message, hang up the phone.
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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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Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.
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That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.
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Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.
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Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.
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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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Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
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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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You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars
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Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
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Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!
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