Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.
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I am a Buddhist.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.
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Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, 'Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota'.
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His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.
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The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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We have brought a peace, and we trust we have brought a peace with honour, and I trust that that will now be followed by the prosperity of the country.
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That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.
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Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.
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My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.
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Look, if you take the best batting team in the world, they too will have their weaknesses - otherwise, wouldn't they win all the time? You mention any team to me, and I will pick out for you a dozen weaknesses. But that is not the point - these things, like fielding, running between wickets, all these are technical things, they can be learnt and practised.
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Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.
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Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.
