Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

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• There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Book
  • Moment

• Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Problem
  • Moral
  • Economic

• The purpose of a business is to create customers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Create

• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Experiences

• All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Done
  • Best
  • Try

• I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Promise
  • Research
  • Opportunities

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Believe
  • Place
  • I Believe

• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Energy
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Out
  • Island
  • Struggles

• I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Why

• Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
  • Good
  • Worry

• You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.

  

  David Twohy
  • People
  • Science
  • Reality

• The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.

  

  Leila Janah
  • People
  • Job

• I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

  

  Jeff Weiner

• I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Success
  • Paris

• I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Funny

• So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

  

  Kenneth H. Cooper
  • Balance
  • Fitness

• Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Way
  • Kill
  • Beer

• Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Way
  • Learn

• What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

  

  Terence McKenna
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