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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Again May Pass Temptation
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Both Count Ever Freedom
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Downhill Gets Goes Rid
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Between Difference Fuzzy Merely
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One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

Another Engineering Magic Man
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never

About Authority Could Done
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so

Almost Any Creed Cult
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable

Being Right Socially Soon
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea

Cats Dogs Get Idea
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Built Contract Did Government
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Corrupt Cynics Equally Everybody
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Become Changing Conservative Idea
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Belief is the death of intelligence.

Belief Death Intelligence
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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
Absolutely Madman Only Sure
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A true initiation never ends.

Ends Initiation Never True
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Become Enlightened Goal Ideal
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Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

Animals Humans Ink Outline
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Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Becomes Beyond Certain Certain Point
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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

Belongs Encyclopedia Only Own
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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

Coincidences Consciousness Explains Infinite
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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Blame Ego Fiction Gets
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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

Crusade Every Evil God
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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Environment Even Fantastic Feeling
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Because Civilized General Having
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
Became Environments Spite Writer
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Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

Around Everyone Hippies Like
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Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Different Each Each Individual Exist
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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

All Confirmed Economics History
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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

History Horror Last Natural
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Endure Humans Live Myths
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I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

Another Being Experienced Human
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Ancestors Even Gentlemen Ladies
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Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

About Angry Anyone Dares
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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Church Earth Fables Miracles
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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Break Choice Huge Increasingly
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Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Because Dull Exciting Jersey
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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.

Create Force God Kind
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Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
Construct Constructs Contain Mind
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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

Abandoned Cry Fear Infant
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The average is that which no person quite ever is.

Average Ever Person Quite
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The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

Between Border Each Fixed
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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Function Incomprehensible Pick Pockets
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The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

Beloved Womb
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The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Alone Earth Easier Hear
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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

Back Down Forward Inside
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The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

Big Big Business Both Business
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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Accidental Common Convinced Much
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The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Am Art Beautiful Dance
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There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

Become Devils Eventually God
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There is no complete theory of anything.

Anything Complete Theory
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