Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.
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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.
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The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
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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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My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.
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Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.
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There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.
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The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.
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We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.
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I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
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I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
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I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
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Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.
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If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.
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Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.
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The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but they never doubted that its content was borrowed from the content of the object, still less that the object really existed.
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Artie Shaw was way ahead of most clarinetists and most jazz players.
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The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.
