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 is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Oh well, I’ll be sure to pick you up again somewhere. It isn’t a very big island, and you are a conspicuous object, driving round it.’ This was true. So long as I was on that island I could not hope to escape Charlotte. I entered Binz in a state of moody acquiescence.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy.
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Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.
