Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
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After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.
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I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.
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I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.
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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
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People will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing.
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Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.
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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.
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Therefore, since the world has stillMuch good, but much less good than ill,And while the sun and moon endureLuck’s a chance, but trouble’s sureI’d face it as a wise man would,And train for ill and not for good.
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
