Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.
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We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
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I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.
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Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
