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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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By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.
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Give death a better name or die trying.
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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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I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.
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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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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
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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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I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.
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Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.
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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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You are a God Act like one!
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People use the word natural ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.
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Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac
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Anything is possible after midnight.
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After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.
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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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Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
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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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We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.
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All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.
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