Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones
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You can see that in people around the world who struggle to survive with little or nothing. Whether they've been inspired by faith or by loving relationships, or whether it's just something innate that gives them that ability to shine and inspire others.
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And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.
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Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.
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I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.
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What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.
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Each man believes only his experience.
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Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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We cannot leap into world government through one quick step... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.
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We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.
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You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.
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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
