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Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
We always have urged people: Don't take LSD unless you are very well prepared, unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind. Don't take it unless you have someone that's very experienced with you to guide you through it. And don't take it unless you are ready to have your perspective on yourself and your life radically changed, because you're gonna be a different person, and you should be ready to face this possibility.
Commitment | Consciousness | Detachment | Discovery | World | Discovery |
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
Experience | News | Receive | Self-awareness | Time | World |
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
A lot of progress was being made there at MIT. Those guys had molecules jumping through hoops like poodles in a circus.
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines'.
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid — but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.
Children | Cooperation | Earth | Fun | Nature | Technology | World | Govern | Learn |
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
On the campus of Outlaw College, professors of essential insanities would characterize the conflicting attitudes of Nina Jablonski and Leigh-Cheri as indicative of a general conflict between social idealism and romanticism. As any of the learned professors would explain, plied with sufficient tequila, no matter how fervently a romantic might support a movement, he or she eventually must withdraw from active participation in that movement because the group ethic - the supremacy of the organization over the individual - is an affront to intimacy. Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars with which this life is sweetened. It is absolutely vital to the essential insanities.
Capacity | Imagination | Observation | People | Will | World |
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic.
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
I may have been wrong about that, she conceded. You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you, and you are delighted to play. In that regard, you may have reached a more elevated plateau of harmony than...ummph.
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Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
Okay, we have just passed through the Michener zone, and , assuming that narcolepsy hasn’t leadened our lids, that we’ve not been Lao-this’d and Lao-that’ed into a comatose state, we’re now in a position, as we rejoin the narrative flow, to conclude that Fan Nan Nan was a Lao Theung community. Are we not?
A free and open nature, that thinketh men honest that but seem to be so. Othello, Act i, Scene 3
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A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish. Comedy of Errors, Act iii, Scene 1
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A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at I, i)
A grievous burden was thy birth to me; Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy; Thy schooldays frightful, desp'rate, wile and furious; Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous; Thy age confirmed, proud, subtle, sly, and bloody, More mild, but yet more harmful--kind in hatred. Richard III, Act iv, Scene 4
Are you come to meet your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, Scene 1
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And simple truth miscalled simplicity, and captive good attending captain ill.
Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.