Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
A. Philip Randolph
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Edsger Dijkstra
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
Viktor Orban
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
Daniel Drew
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
Hailey Gates
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
Jack Black
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
Yossi Sarid
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
Ed Stoppard
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
Pat Quinn
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When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
Wendy Davis
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I actually didn't always want to be an actor.
Jack Kilmer
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Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
Viggo Mortensen
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I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
Ian Anderson
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Carl von Clausewitz
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It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
John Lancaster Spalding
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There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.
Barack Obama
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For my sake, the entire world was created.
Israel ben Eliezer
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Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.
Paul Davies
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
Terence McKenna