Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.
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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.
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We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.
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The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.
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They can’t even think of freedom because they don’t have the language to.
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Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
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You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.
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The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. The General Strike attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.
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One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.
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Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.
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Principals don't like surprises, but I like this one. Thank you for paying attention to those of us who had concerns.
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Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.
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I do think that metaphysical exploration is like scientific exploration, in the sense that philosophers and scientists are both developing models of reality, and furthermore that we all rely to a significant extent on the idea that models which provide elegant, simple and satisfying explanations are more likely to be true.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.
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The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
