Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
Terence McKenna
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
Malorie Blackman
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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.
Hanna Rosin
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
AJ McLean
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
Gavin Hood
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
Felice Picano
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!
Isaac Asimov
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We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and - our former riches.
Anna Akhmatova
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How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
Jean-Paul Sartre
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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
Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra
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I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.
Mary Gaitskill
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This is a crucial meeting for the future of the European Union.
Jack Straw
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Paradise for me, at this point, would probably be tacos, video games, and my lady. Just hanging out and eating tacos and not getting big.
William Fitzgerald Harper
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I went to school in Massachusetts at Hampshire College.
Liev Schreiber
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From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.
Kenneth R. Miller
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When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you've got to have your story together. You've got to study and have a foundation. Jeffrey Foucault has that foundation, and you can hear it in his voice, and feel it in his music. He's got an understanding that you don't hear that often.
Brian Fallon
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I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
Terence McKenna
