Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.

Terence McKenna

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• Psychedelic
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• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
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• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  

  Tecumseh
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• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
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• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

  

  Patricia Ireland
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• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

  

  Garry Trudeau
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• We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
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• When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life.

  

  Jeremy Lin
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• I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

  

  Christopher Reeve

• Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
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• After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?

  

  Jeff Sessions
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  • Time
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• One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

  

  Claude Pepper
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• You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system.

  

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• I was acting when I was playing baseball.

  

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• There's an overemphasis on conservation and other idyllic energy sources that can be harmful in that it hampers new technology and innovation.

  

  Klaus Lackner
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• I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

  

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• People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.

  

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• Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden.... As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or face the consequences - and again in any action the aim will be to eliminate their military hardware, cut off their finances, disrupt their supplies, target their troops, not civilians.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Action
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• It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.

  

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• It's so easy to pick up a camera, white balance, and shoot people having sex, but I don't think there's anything very interesting about it. You might get off, but that's it.

  

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• The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Plant
  • Function