Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

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• An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Drug
  • Down

• My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

  

  R. T. Rybak
  • Father
  • Death
  • Night

• Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Drug
  • Marijuana

• 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
  • Up
  • Education
  • Quality

• If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • Help
  • Drug

• I want to go to Mexico. I've been stonewalled, so far, by federal officials. I want to go to Mexico, and I want to meet with the top Mexican officials. I want to tell them my past experience and what I can do here as Sheriff to help them get better intelligence and communications on the drug thing, not the illegal immigration thing.

  

  Joe Arpaio
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Past

• 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
  • Drug

• Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.

  

  Carl Hart
  • Country
  • Education
  • Drug

• The pharma industry is one of the few industries that comes up every year and brags about how much worse they got - like, now it costs $2 billion to make a drug, and it was a billion 5 years ago.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Up
  • Drug

• Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.

  

  David Mixner
  • Drug

• I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Life
  • Drug
  • Alcohol

• 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
  • World
  • Long
  • Health

• My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

  

  Frank Dobson
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Party

• As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.

  

  Bob McNair
  • Team
  • Respect
  • Player

• Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are paying for inefficiency that can be dangerous.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Drug
  • Insurance

• Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Health

• Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Ambition
  • Drug

• Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • World
  • God
  • Dream

• I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Internet
  • Computer
  • Apple

• Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Work
  • Done
  • Technology

• Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.

  

  Plato
  • Wisdom
  • Discipline
  • Harmony

• Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

  

  Akeem Ayers
  • Great
  • Teacher
  • Luther King

• Sam is a truly competitive driver. Yes, I want to beat him and he wants to beat me. But at the end of the day, we want both cars up there and we want to make the boss happy.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Boss
  • Wants
  • Beat

• The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Computer