Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
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Ma 'l populo facea come i più fanno,Ch'ubbidiscon più a quei che più in odio hanno.
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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.
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Civilizations may clash, but they surely fall if robbed of light from above. It could come from the 1 percent or the 99%, but a guiding light is needed to keep the United States from becoming the rubble of past great civilizations.
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New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.
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Do you have the same vision of where industry is going as the target of your acquisition? If visions differ, you might get together economically for a while, but then you are going to have problems.
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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.
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I write novels and other things.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
