Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.
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I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.
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Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.
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You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.
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Most forms of external support require interaction with the Palestinian administration.
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High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk.
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When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.
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I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.
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I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming
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The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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My most-used word was no! I said no to pockets, no to zippers, no to extra loops. In the end, all the products were so slim and light.
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There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater.
