We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
JERRY GARCIAWhat we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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