"It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad."

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

Alexander Shulgin

#Honesty Quotes #Drug Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.”
“To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.”
“I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.”
“Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.”

Source : Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.”
“You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.”

Source : "Interviews with Michael Bloomberg and Madeleine Albright". "GPS" with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.
“Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.”
“When you're not recruiting effectively you're not recruiting properly through a certain channel, like a job board, then what's left of you? I don't believe HR's been able to figure that out. They need to go back to the way they used to do it. They complained that they got so many millions of applicants, they couldn't possibly spend the amount of human time on all those applicants. But they could solve the problem tomorrow if they stopped soliciting millions of applicants through job boards.”

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