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Engineer, Engineering
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Hedonic Engineering -- The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?
-Robert Wilson
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Freedom
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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.
-Robert Wilson
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Intelligence
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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
-Robert Wilson
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Art
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
-Robert Wilson
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Discovery
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No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.
-Robert Wilson
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Belief
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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
-Robert Wilson
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Love
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
-Sandy Wilson
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Manners
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Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and ;him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.
-Erastus Wiman
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Quotations
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-Lord Peter Wimsey
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Economics
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The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't.
-R. Foster Winans
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