Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
Terence McKenna
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
Orhan Pamuk
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
Ted Allen
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
Dalai Lama
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
A. E. Waite
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
Vikram Chatwal
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The fundamental purpose of Jesus was the establishment of the kingdom of God, which involved a thorough regeneration and reconstitution of social life.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann Martel
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But instead I kept my tears inside,cause I knew if I,started I'd keep crying for the rest of my life with you,I finally built up the strength to walk away,don't regret it,but I still live with the side effects.
Mariah Carey
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In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
Dean Koontz
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Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss.
Janine Shepherd
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Spirituality is an anchor for me and guides me through life.
Amanda de Cadenet
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I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.
Gary Johnson
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I can accept defeat, but I love to win and be competitive. It is my job, and I love it.
Diego Costa
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One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
Scott Hamilton
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The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.
Billy Crudup
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Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
Terence McKenna