Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.
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Who got the baddest pussy on the planet? D boys love me, they don't understand it.
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Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.
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Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.
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If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.
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Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos. There's a lot of concern about getting embroiled in another Vietnam and ... about sending American troops once again to fight someone else's war.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of a boy's club, I mean, there was Bruno Kirby, Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal - talk about your testosterone trio!
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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Judiciary is where my passion is.
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When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.
