Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
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The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity.
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'For even in hell, I still have faith to one day be free with my father at the gates but make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takesto be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate'
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Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.
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Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
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Most achievers I know are people who have made a strong and deep dedication to pursuing a particular goal. That dedication took a tremendous amount of effort.
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First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.
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We need to do something about the culture of violence.
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If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.
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A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
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And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small . . . orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science.
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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
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The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
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The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.
