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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

— Robert Anton Wilson

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Yates thinks Bruno may have had a role in the invention of either Rosicrucianism or Freemasonry or both.

Everything Is Under Control (1998)

The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is "the Lie that all men believe."

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

The A∴A∴ must rank as the most secretive secret society in the world.

Everything Is Under Control (1998)

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

Everything Is Under Control (1998)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

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