Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.
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But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.
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Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love
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The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.
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I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
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Love for one's motherland is one of the most powerful and uplifting feelings. It manifested itself in full in the brotherly support to the people of Crimea and Sevastopol, when they resolutely decided to return home, this event will remain a very important epoch in domestic history forever.
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They were the first to offer, and that's the only place I really wanted to play. For me, I love the city of Boise and I'm really comfortable with the whole staff down there. And what I like most about that program is they win and they win the right way.
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A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.
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The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
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Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
