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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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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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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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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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Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.
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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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Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.
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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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Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.
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The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly
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LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
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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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If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
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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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We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.
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By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.
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One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.
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Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac
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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.
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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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People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses.
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