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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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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Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
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The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.
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There is nothing wrong with my mind.
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The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
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To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
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No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
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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.
