Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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I've been honored to take part in protests and events across Illinois, joining with thousands of you in the resistance, making calls, sending letters, and making sure Washington understands that we will not allow the ACA to be repealed.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.
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I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like "5 A.M."; that song's in a minor key and I'm just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it's not.
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I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
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You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.
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You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.
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The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
