"Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it."

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Source : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

Alexander Shulgin

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“I don't come from a particularly musical family. My mother learned a bit of piano in Korea. When I was three, I apparently climbed up on our upright piano and started picking Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star out.”
“When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room in you for fear.”
“Iâ€™m a total atheist, and for me itâ€™s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.”
“Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.”
“real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.”

Source : Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). “Glenarvon (1816).”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint
“The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.”

Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “LEW WALLACE Premium Collection: Historical Novels, Poetry & Plays (Illustrated): Ben-Hur, The Fair God, The Prince of India, The Wooing of Malkatoon & Commodus”, p.239, e-artnow
“You get behind some of the numbers, like the underfunded pensions in the US, and I'm not sure people even understand how wrong their situation is.”

Source : Source: nordic.businessinsider.com
“Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America â€” that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.”

Source : Redd Foxx, Norma Miller (1977). “The Redd Foxx Encyclopedia of Black Humor”, Ward Ritchie Press

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