Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
Samuel Freeman Miller -
I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
Imelda Staunton -
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
Kate Forsyth -
Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.
Laura Wilkinson -
I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
Naftali Bennett
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Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson -
I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of just not being a rugby player for a while, and over that period I'll get my head around what the next challenge involves.
Brian O'Driscoll -
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway -
Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.
Confucius -
I've had Motley fans come up to me and talk to me about Motley. I've had other fans talk to me about all the backing vocals and the tapes. I just ask them, 'At the end of the day, did you have a good time?' That's it.
John Corabi Mötley Crüe -
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
George Bernard Shaw
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The path to knowledge follows many strange turnings.
Elizabeth Bear -
It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself--which is what they are most needed for.
Rudolf Arnheim -
It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart
Anodea Judith -
What is needed, is an awakening.
Terence McKenna