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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
Writer
Springfield
Massachusetts
Timothy Francis Leary
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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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Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.
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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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Man's best friend is his dogma.
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Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.
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The PC is the LSD of the '90s.
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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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Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.
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