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Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire

Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.

That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.

He asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when we find out what we are actually doing and who we actually are, that is the point of living...it may be only a few seconds...a few seconds of significant actions, out of a lifetime.

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.

what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

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