Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
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I'm certainly not going to support diverting $2 trillion from Social Security into creating personal savings accounts.
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Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.
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There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.
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I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.
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The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.
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Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
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The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.
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We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.
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Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.
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Conservatism is the politics of reality
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Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.
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There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
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[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.
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I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.
