Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.Terence McKenna
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
Xavier Becerra -
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
Irvin D. Yalom -
By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.
Gary Johnson -
A psychiatrist today has the power to (1) take a fancy to a woman (2) lead her to take wild treatment as a joke (3) drug and shock her to temporary insanity (4) incarnate [
L. Ron Hubbard -
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
Camille Paglia -
A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.
Amanda Palmer
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Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.
Bennie Thompson -
Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.
Daryl Gates -
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.
Alex Campbell -
I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.
Davey Havok Blaqk Audio -
Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.
Jim Gerlach -
We should revel in tons and tons and tons of ideas. Some of them will manifest and lead to a drug discovery, and some will not.
Anne Wojcicki
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Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.
John Benjamin Hickey -
Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.
Jim Yong Kim -
And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'
John McCain -
The Partnership for a Drug Free America? Please, make me laugh and gag at the same time with that title. They're a lobbying arm for the liquor and prescription drug industries. They don't want a drug-free America, they want an America free of the drugs that are their competition. Prozac doesn't want to go up against marijuana, it will lose.
Bill Maher -
Poetry’s a mere drug, Sir.
George Farquhar -
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emil Cioran
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Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.
Victor Hugo -
Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.
Dee Dee Myers -
What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game.
Charles Barkley -
Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.
Brian Tracy -
Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.
Josh Trank -
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
Terence McKenna