“Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.”

—  Terence McKenna

quoted from an interview with Terence McKenna in How to be Idle http://books.google.com/books?id=Xez95zjujlsC by Tom Hodgkinson

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American ethnobotanist 1946–2000

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