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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I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.
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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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John Wick does different techniques. Everything is available to him. There isn't one way of working a weapon. I like the reload with the flick going outside. That movement of getting rid of the magazine is to go sideways with it.
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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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We are mere bundles of habits.
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Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.
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In reality, in the history of it, the captains are only really in charge during an engagement. The rest of the time, everyone had got the same vote. It's been very interesting finding that.
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I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't quite been able to put it together for a whole match.
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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.
