Be gentle with them, Timothy. They want to be free, but they don't know how. Teach them. Reassure them.

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Reported to be Huxley's last words to Timothy Leary, which Huxley whispered from his deathbed. Quoted in Timothy Leary, Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990 [1983]), "Life on a Grounded Space Colony", p. 192

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