Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
John Carlos
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The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.
