"Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind."

-- Terence McKenna

#Discovery Quotes #Mind Quotes #Matter Quotes

“If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.”
“In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertsonâ€™s ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it.”
“If I was a cabinetmaker or a commercial fisherman, it would be the same question - how to connect to my world. The job we do affords us the opportunity to have people listen to what we say. But a lot of people have a similar situation: They're trying to find a way to do some good.”

Source : "Arcade Fire’s Band Aid for Haiti". Interview With Alan Light, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2011.
“You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.”

Source : Quoted in J. R. Colombo, Wit and Wisdom of the Moviemakers (1979)
“It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.”
“I wear [socks and underwear] once and throw them out. Even when I'm home...I wouldn't think of washing them.”
“All marriages are sacred, but not all are safe.”
“As Americans we've gotta make sure that we begin to rebuild and get our military the resources they need to defend us.”

Source : "Liz Cheney: We Must Unify Behind Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 12, 2016.

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