Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.Terence McKenna
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
Ted Turner -
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann -
Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
Kate Christensen -
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler -
It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
Fedor Emelianenko
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
Bar Refaeli -
We assume people we know can't be serial killers.
Pat Brown -
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
Imtiaz Ali -
The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
Carl Honore -
Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.
P. J. Soles -
'Later he tried to keep a straight face as he mockingly confessed: 'While we were away, I found God.' He rambled on about the Bible before concluding, 'We found God. He was right in our stomachs...''(The rambling had to do with finding a Bible in every hotel room, 'Every hotel has Holy Bibles.')
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
Karl Marx -
When I said we were brothers from the podium … some brothers are like Cain and Abel, other brothers can fight with each other and get along. I don't know if this is reparable or not, that will be up to the president.
Anthony Scaramucci -
This is a terrible place to die in.Where’s a good one?
Cormac McCarthy -
Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
Emmanuelle Beart -
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
Matthew Desmond -
Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.
Aristotle
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.
Thomas Kuhn -
The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
Fay Vincent -
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things.
Alvar Aalto -
I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.
David Steel -
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
Terence McKenna