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.Terence McKenna
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
Victoria Pendleton -
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
Alan Alda -
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.
Alice Rivlin -
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.
Cynthia Nixon -
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.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Most forms of external support require interaction with the Palestinian administration.
Javier Solana -
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.
Franco Modigliani -
When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
William Peter Blatty -
Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age -
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
Sara Paretsky
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I don't really care about being right, I just care about success. I don't mind being wrong, and I'll admit that I'm wrong a lot. It doesn't really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing.
Steve Jobs -
Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.
Haris Pasovic -
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Abraham Lincoln -
Life without knowledge is death in disguise.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
When we reorientate our lives on the person and teachings of Jesus, we become free to follow him wherever he leads—even if it is in an opposite direction as where our religious tradition might lead us.
Benjamin L. Corey -
We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.
Terence McKenna