Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
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There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
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We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.
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I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
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Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.
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If you love animals, don't eat them.
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God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden
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Habit is necessary to give power.
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What you dislike in your superiors, avoid doing to your inferiors. What you dislike in your inferiors, avoid doing when working for your superiors. What you hate in those who are in front of you, do not do to those behind you.
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No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.
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Once they come back and see there's no way to catch up, that's a realization that strikes many of them as a surprise and a disappointment.
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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some...
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As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.
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You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie of the tour, but that doesn't offset the rest of it.
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I just have to prove to myself, I don't have to prove to fans.
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Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.
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Without the materials needed to manufacture new technologies, our future innovators will not have the resources necessary to tackle the biggest challenges we face in today's society. I strongly believe in being a positive and creative force in the protection and enhancement of the local and global environment.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle