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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Philosophical

“I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present.”

Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Philosophical

“Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.”

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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
Philosophical

“How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.”

Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
Grateful

“Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?”

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Wise

“The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.”

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Philosophical

“What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.”

Rand Paul Politician
Courageous

“It's a little different when you spend 30 years developing all these companies that we just ask [Donald Trump] to sell them. So I don't think that's a fair request.”

Rand Paul Politician
Determined

“I don't think it's so much Trump lobbing us for changes. It's us asking him for help in getting the changes done. I think Trump has the bully pulpit. He has a great deal of influence with the Republican Party on both the House and the Senate side. The bill right now to the conservative point of view doesn't have enough repeal. It looks like we're keeping a lot of Obamacare. So we actually think that there needs to be more repeal. That's the message I took to Trump.”

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RM Spiritual

“I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.”

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RH Confident

“I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.”

RH Proud

“It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.”

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
Philosophical

“It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both.”

Virginia Woolf Novelist
Calm

“I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.”

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
Love

“Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.”

Philosophical

“Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.”