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If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.

— Timothy Leary

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To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Office Yoga : Simple Stretches for Busy People (2000)

Think for yourself and question authority.

Timothy Leary's track on Sound Bites from the Counter Culture (1989)

When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

Shout! (1981)

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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