Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
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I can say with absolute certainty I do not cheat. I am not a magician.
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Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.
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'When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much.'
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
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I may not be loud but that doesn't mean I'm not strong within myself. My mum and dad instilled in me to stand up for what I believe in – and I do.
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If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
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We've been working cooperatively with eBay. I think the story is that we're trying to target the people who misuse eBay; we're not targeting eBay itself.
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Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state – admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological – in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
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The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
