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Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

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
Today
Docile
Damaged
Designed
Produce
Education
Brain
Almost
Everyone
Automatons

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