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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
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Timothy Francis Leary
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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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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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We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.
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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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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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When you get the message, hang up the phone.
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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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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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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
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You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
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Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.
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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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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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Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.
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My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
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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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Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.
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Man's best friend is his dogma.
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