"A true initiation never ends."
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"I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can find NO exceptions: Where the State prevents a free market, by banning any form of goods or services, consumer demand will create a black market for those goods or services, at vastly higher prices. Can YOU think of a single exception to this law?"
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"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves."
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"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization."
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"Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different."
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"We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch."
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"Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals."
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"Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul."
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"Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates."
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"We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe"
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"There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world."
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"We live in our fantasies and endure our realities."
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"If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution."
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"A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to."
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"We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something."
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"Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences."
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"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
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"Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude."
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"Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of “psychology"
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"Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists."
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