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"If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people and with violent material. I don't regret having concerned myself with such people, because I think that most of us are disturbed."
"People go to the movies instead of moving."
"Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer."
"I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells."
"Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction."
"It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies."
"The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension."
"It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening."
"What people say doesn't really matter. It's best to just brush it off and move on."
"I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture."
"The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another."
"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors."
"I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper."
"When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them."
"A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion."
"In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people."
"You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you."
"Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so."
