Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'
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We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
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They all ask: Why? Why is it that this man’s name Ai Weiwei can never be typed on a Chinese computer or the whole sentence will disappear?
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The love, the echoes of long ago you needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.
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I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.
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I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.
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If you're ever being typecasted - as most of us are - that's a great way to be typecasted. So, 'The Rifleman' is still popular with a lot of people, and I'm proud to be associated.
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'Redemption' is about understanding myself and not worrying about my relationship with the industry.
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Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one's understanding.
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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.