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“Experience life in all possible ways --
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience, because
the more experience you have, the more
mature you become.”
― Osho

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#3

“Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.”
― Richard Nixon

tags: attributed-no-source, drugs, law, marijuana, prohibition

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#4

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: freedom, law, morality, rules

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#5

“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: wisdom

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#6

“Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.”
― Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within

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#7

“Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life....”
― Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

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#8

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#9

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#10

“The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.”
― Terence McKenna

tags: collective, culture, dreams, history, imagination

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#11

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

tags: cyberpunk, cyberspace, internet

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#12

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: poetry, wisdom

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#13

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
― John Lennon

tags: god, organized-religion, religion, spirituality

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#14

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison

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#15

“Whoever controls the media, the
images, controls the culture.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: influence, public-opinion

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#16

“The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising

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#17

“The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, The Golden Apple

tags: hagbard-celine

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#18

“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

tags: sex, sexuality

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#19

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

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#20

“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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#21

“Life begins where fear ends.”
― Osho Bhagwam Shree Rajneesh

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#22

“We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”
― Charles Bukowski

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#23

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
― Anais Nin

tags: dreams, life, love

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#24

“Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do , Something you are, And something you give away”
― John Lennon

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#25

“I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.”
― Timothy Leary

tags: beatles, freedom, freemen, music, mutant, mutation, rock, timothy-leary

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#26

“The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”
― Terence McKenna

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#27

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words

tags: drugs, music, philosophy, politics

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#28

“His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

tags: science-fiction

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#29

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

tags: aphorism, philosophy, proverb

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#30

“You exist in time, but you belong to
eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are
deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no
birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of
your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of meditation;Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.”
― Osho

tags: meditation

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#31

“No social stability without individual stability.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: society

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