The face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMan is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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The world is now a virus.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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