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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.

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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Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.
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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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In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session, a woman will inevitably have several hundred orgasms.
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LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.
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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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I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.
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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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Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.
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Give death a better name or die trying.
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The universe is an intelligence test.
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People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses.
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Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.
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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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Man's best friend is his dogma.
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By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.
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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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