Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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I think I'm more European in personality.
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Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
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I like teff, an Ethiopian grain. It's not so popular in the States yet, but it's really good, almost like a porridge. And I love sushi, but it's not always that healthy, so I don't keep it at home.
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It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet … You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work.
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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
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I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
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Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
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We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.
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John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party.
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If someone like myself, who is married to a white woman, who has spent my entire life building bridges, can't point out the alt-right whitelash reaction without being accused of being a racial polemecist, we're going to have a big problem.
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Wit has as few true judges as painting.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
