Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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I don't feel closeted.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
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We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.
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Australia is so influenced by America. It's kind of in-between the U.K. and the States.
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Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
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His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.
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I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically ... Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law ... and that I was defiling his women ...
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I receive them only when he thinks I deserve it - I have to work for them!
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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
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The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.
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We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.
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Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.
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Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.
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A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.
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Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
