Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
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I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
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There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.
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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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Above all have respect for yourself.
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Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.
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If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture... “If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.
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I don't think anything predated Christians.
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I once recommended in a San Francisco Chronicle column that a third arm - a plastic arm - be sewn at the base of the spine so that people could have a tripod to sit on while waiting in line, and it was taken seriously.
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The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.
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It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.
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We've done a lot of studies to see when they do happen, why, and I mean there's a variety of reasons. But one, it starts with a commitment where they decide this is going to be who we are. Maybe it's out of their faith, a new way of looking at their faith, that we must be integrated across race.
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Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
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Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
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Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.
