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"Drop Out" meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity."

— Timothy Leary Flashbacks (1983)

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

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

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

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Think for yourself and question authority.

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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.

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