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We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

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
Brain
Inhabit
Reality
Constructs
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Past
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Fabricating

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