Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
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I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
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There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
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The feeling that we call 'I' seems to define our point of view in every moment, and it also provides an anchor for popular beliefs about souls and freedom of will. And yet this feeling, however imperturbable it may appear at present, can be altered, interrupted, or entirely abolished.
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In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.
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I tried to hold myself apart, showing only what I wanted, doling out bits and pieces of who I was. But that only works out for so long. Eventually, even the smallest fragments can't help but, make a whole.
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The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.
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Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mournAmong the river sallows, borne aloftOr sinking as the light wind lives or dies.
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We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
