My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I'm not running for president because I think I'm blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
It was Apollo 8 that first showed us the tiny blue marble of Earth floating in the void of space, one of… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
“It feels like ancient history," said Naoko. But anyhow, sorry about last night. I don't know, I was a bundle of nerves.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
He motioned for the boys to go inside and they did. When looked back to me his eyes were back to normal.… — Jade Copy Share Image
So if Hillary [Clinton] is elected president, it will make history in two ways. She'll be the first woman president. And Bill… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
As the country has become more diverse, not just states like California and New York, but throughout the nation, it's no coincidence… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The earth's history over the past several million years is that for every 100,000 years, we go through a dramatic climatic cycle… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
“If he can understand my story, then he’s never too far from me. It is always within my power to build a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
[David Milch] had say, "You have to understand that our history of western movies, what we've been doing in westerns since the… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
Even through all the imperfections, mistakes and disagreements of our past, our aspiration to be good and do good has been the… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in… — Ethan Nadelmann Copy Share Image
The Bible is and should be an appropriate course of study in our public schools. Because it is the most widely read,… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
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History is filled with weird but true stories of social contagion - from dancing manias in the Middle Ages to nuns pretending… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history,… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent,… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans...… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts, acts, atoms and wounds, love indifference and dislike, also of his race… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first… — Helen Sharman Copy Share Image
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
We have throughout our history been tested when it comes to the institutions of our democracy. And thank God our forefathers were… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
When it comes to the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, I've never heard any stories of them drinking or drugging or causing problems in… — AJ Chilson Copy Share Image
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![“My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.” quote by Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ff7/terence-mckenna-287_communication_my-normal-lectures-deal-with-the-psyched_2154549.png)
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![“I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist…” quote by David Ebershoff](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/53d/david-ebershoff-29756_art_i-must-say-a-few-words-about-memory-it-i_2971298.png)
![“So if Hillary [Clinton] is elected president, it will make history in two ways. She'll be the first woman president. And Bill Clinton, he'll be the first man and the first former president to return to the White House in the capacity of spouse.” quote by Terry Gross](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e1e/terry-gross-9637_bills_so-if-hillary-clinton-is-elected-preside_2304075.jpg)
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