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.

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• Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Said
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• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Age
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• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
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• The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Health
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• By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
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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.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• 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
  • Power
  • Today
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• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Force
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  • Superior

• A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Drug

• Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
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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
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• Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

  

  Daryl Gates
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• 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
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• I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.

  

  Davey Havok Blaqk Audio
  • Drug

• 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
  • Drug

• 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.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Responsibility
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• 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
  • Drug

• 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
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• The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.

  

  Joel Hodgson

• Everyone was like, "Why do you need to meet someone on Match.com?" My response was, "I certainly don't need to meet more of the same broke, acting class guys that I'd been dating my whole life." I needed to change that whole paradigm. So, I decided to meet some corporate guys and see how that worked. So, I went on Match, but I didn't put a picture up, because I'm on television, and I didn't want anybody contacting me for the wrong reasons. So, I had to do the hunting, as it were. I didn't anticipate meeting my husband online, but there he was. And it all worked out!

  

  Essence Atkins
  • Guy
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• If you're not at least a tiny bit jealous at this point, you might want to check for your own pulse.

  

  Emily Matchar
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• Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Life
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  • War

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• 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
  • Drug
  • Terror