Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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I like to describe 'Yellowstone' is 'The Great Gatsby' on the largest ranch in Montana. Then it's really a study of the changing of the West.
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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
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Obviously comedic styles do change.
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That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there.
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My dad was the guy who wanted to teach a man to fish. He was very, very curious, right up until the day he died. He was insatiable for information. He was the pursuit of awesome.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.
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Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
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At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.
