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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.
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And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
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