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Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.

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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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Team
Sports
Interesting
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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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Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
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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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The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.
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I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.
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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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Man's best friend is his dogma.
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LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.
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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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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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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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The word religion beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates to bind from the Latin--re means back and ligare means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight.
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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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In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.
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The universe is an intelligence test.
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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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Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.
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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
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Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.
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The most important thing you do in your life is to die.
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