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Timothy Leary
Age: 75 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 22
Died: 1996
Died: May 31
Actor
Psychologist
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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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Give death a better name or die trying.
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I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.
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We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.
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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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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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I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
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Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
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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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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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The most important thing you do in your life is to die.
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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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Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac
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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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Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.
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I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.
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Man's best friend is his dogma.
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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 universe is an intelligence test.
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Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.
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