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Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

Timothy Leary

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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
Unexpected
Instinct
Trust
Others
Find
Instincts

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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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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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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 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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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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The universe is an intelligence test.
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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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Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.
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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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Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.
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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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A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
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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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Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.
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Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
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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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Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.
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In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session, a woman will inevitably have several hundred orgasms.
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