Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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	The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.   
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	Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.   
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	I don't believe in regret.   
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	I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.   
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	As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.   
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	I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.   
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	My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'   
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	I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.   
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	I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.   
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	You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.   
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	We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.   
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	Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.   
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	I have many times resigned myself to never finding a true way out. But a new hope always emerges telling me that it is not yet too late for all of us to take stock and make a decision. I was brought up to believe in free will.   
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	Having been selected to be an author in the World Book, I now believe that Wikipedia is a perfectly fine source for your information, because I know what the quality control is for real encyclopedias - they let me in.   
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	Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth   
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	I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.   
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	There is real power in seeing yourself as a hero. Because then you believe that you can do anything.   
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	My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.   
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	Crashing is never funny, but sometimes you can jump up, laugh at your stupidity, and go, 'What the hell was that?'   
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	The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.   
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	The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.   
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	There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.   
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	It is here that I can concentrate my mind upon the Remembered Earth. It is here that I am most conscious of being, here that wonder comes upon my blood, here I want to live forever; and it is no matter that I must die.   
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	Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					