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Terence McKenna Quotes: Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
         

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.


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As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.



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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.



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