Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.
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This bikini made me a success.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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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.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved.
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A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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We all want our drugs to be safe - and so an essential part of the pathway to the development of a new drug is approval by a regulator.
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Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.
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When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.
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You are to bring my message to those ensnared in the drug-net of illusion that they should abstain, that the drugs will bring more harm than good. I send my love to them.
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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
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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.
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If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
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Critisism is just reflection of the person that speaking
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Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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The judicial discretion has been fettered greatly by the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
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the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell.
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Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.
