Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

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• We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

  

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• Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

  

  Ted Allen
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• We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

  

  Nate Parker
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• I can always go back to education.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  

  Kara Lindsay
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• I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
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• The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

  

  Walter Gropius
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• If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

  

  Wayne Kramer
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• Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

  

  Oliver Kahn
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• Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
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• I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
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• The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.

  

  Benjamin Earl King
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• There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
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• Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.

  

  William Osler
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• People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• I'm an escapist kind of writer.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
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• There's no better way to process pain than to write.

  

  Rashida Jones
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• This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Language
  • Unique
  • Process