The engineers of the future will be poets. – Terence McKenna

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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. – Marcel Proust

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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. - Vince Lombardi

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If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. - Voltaire

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History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness. -Terence McKenna

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What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us. -Terence McKenna

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I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

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I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

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