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Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.

— Timothy Leary Timothy Leary's Last Trip (1997)

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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.

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.

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Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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