Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
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People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.
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And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
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Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
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It is a actor jobs to turn a pesnon who is not a fan into a fan.
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When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.
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There's clearly a Democratic dilemma, ... But while other Democrats are debating how to change the Bush tax cut, we're changing the debate entirely. Instead of just talking about what Bush has done, we are focusing on reforming the income tax system as a whole, ensuring fairness and integrity for middle-class taxpayers.
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Son, this is the only time I'm ever gonna say this. It is not okay to lose.
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It demonstrates that these kinds of things can, and do, work.
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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
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If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you. If you recognize it, your awareness will destroy it. He who rejects this will never know the entrance to the Temple.
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Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.
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People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.
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I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.
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We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.
