"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
-William S. Burroughs
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"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.“
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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."
-William S. Burroughs
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"Like all pure creatures, cats are practical."
-William S. Burroughs
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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."
-William S. Burroughs
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"Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war."
-William S. Burroughs
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"The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits."
-William S. Burroughs
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
-H. L. Mencken
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
-Nicolaus Copernicus
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
-Jose Marti
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