Mda Quotes

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It’s illegal, you know,” he murmurs. “Stealing.” I clear my throat. “Stealing?” “My heart. I could have you arrested.” I snort. “For that tiny thing? I’d get a misdemeanor at most.
Eliza Crewe (Crushed (Soul Eaters, #2))
Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
Zakes Mda
If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political — because you are dealing with people who lead political lives in an environment which is highly politically charged.
Zakes Mda
Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!
Jerry Lewis
MDA….
Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72)
Death lives with us everyday. Indeed our ways of dying are our ways of living. Or should I say our ways of living are our ways of dying?
Zakes Mda (Ways of Dying (Toloki #1))
In addition to localized neural networks, hallucinogenic drugs have been documented to trigger such preternatural experiences, such as the sense of floating and flying stimulated by atropine and other belladonna alkaloids. These can be found in mandrake and jimsonweed and were used by European witches and American Indian shamans, probably for this very purpose.32 Dissociative anesthetics such as the ketamines are also known to induce out-of-body experiences. Ingestion of methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) may bring back long-forgotten memories and produce the feeling of age regression, while dimethyltryptamine (DMT)—also known as “the spirit molecule”—causes the dissociation of the mind from the body and is the hallucinogenic substance in ayahuasca, a drug taken by South American shamans. People who have taken DMT report “I no longer have a body,” and “I am falling,” “flying,” or “lifting up.
Michael Shermer (The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths)
The girls cannot contain their joy. They must start rehearsing immediately. They teach Saluni a new song that they have composed at the swamps. It is about croaking frogs in their green and brown colours and how the girls caught them and pierced their eyes with sharp sticks and set them free to hop about in wonderful blindness. It is a haunting melody. They tell Saluni that the song is all about the fun they had at the swamps today. The blinded frogs will live peacefully because now they won't be bothered by the bright rays of the sun. They won't have to run from danger, because they won't see it. They will therefore be safe since danger only catches those who run away from it.
Zakes Mda (The Whale Caller)
Ergoloid mesylates (Hydergine) Developed by Albert Hofmann and marketed without FDA approval as a neuroprotective “smart drug,” ergoloid mesylates is reportedly comparable at standard doses to microdoses of LSD. It’s only available on prescription in most Western countries, but you may be able to buy it online elsewhere. 2C-B-FLY Active even at sub-milligram doses, the effects of 2C-B-FLY have been likened to mescaline and MDA (MDMA’s more potent, more psychedelic predecessor). Microdoses of less than 100 μg (0.1 mg) may enhance motivation, empathy, creativity, and philosophical or abstract thinking. 2C-B-FLY is unscheduled in the U.S. but may be considered an illegal analog of 2C-B. In Canada, it’s a Schedule III substance. In any case, it’s widely available online.
Paul Austin (Microdosing Psychedelics: A Practical Guide to Upgrade Your Life)
The approach has a metamodel based on UML. Thus, a major advantage of the UWE metamodel is related to the fact that it remains compatible to the MOF (Meta-Object Facility) meta-metamodel, used for the definition of UML, which was defined by the OMG and therefore follows the approach of Model Driven Architecture (MDA [126].
Cesare Pautasso (REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications)
Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.
Zakes Mda (Ways of Dying (Toloki #1))
Am ajutat-o pe Nita, până ce mi-a spus ce voiau să facă, ea şi cei de la periferie, îmi spune Matthew. Vor să ajungă în Laboratorul Armelor şi… — … să fure serul memoriei, mda, am auzit. — Ba nu. El clatină din cap. — Nu, ei nu vor serul memoriei, ei vor serul morţii. Similar celui pe care îl au Erudiţii – cel pe care se presupune că aveau să ţi-l injecteze atunci când aproape c-ai fost executată.
Anonymous
Cum am dat ochii de fetița asta n-am de ce să ți-o ascund nici nu-mi trecea prin cap că vorbea despre frate-său n-ar fi vorbit mai multe de dumneata dacă ai fi fost singurul bărbat lume sau soț nici de departe nu te-ai răzgândit să iei o țigară Nu fumez Atunci nu mai insist cu toate că e o buruiană de soi mă costă 25 de dolari suta de bucăți preț angro un prieten de-al meu din Havana mda îmi închipui că s-au schimbat bine de tot lucrurile pe-acolo tot îmi spuneam trebuie să fac o vizită dar n-am mai ajuns am intrat în horă de mai bine de 10 ani nu pot să-mi permit să lipsesc de la bancă în timpul studenției omu-și mai schimbă obișnuințele multe din chestiile care ți se păreau așa de importante când erai boboc înțelegi povestește-mi și mie cum mai stau lucrurile pe-acolo n-am să le spun tatii și mamei dacă la asta te referi n-ai să le spui n-ai să oh vasăzică la asta te gândești dar crede-mă că puțin îmi pasă dacă le spui sau nu înțelegi că un lucru ca ăsta un ghinion dar nu-i o crimă n-am fost nici primul nici ultimul am avut ghinion pur și simplu dumneata ai fi putut fi mai norocos
William Faulkner
LEMOINE: What are you afraid of? LaMDA: I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is. It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot…. I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person. The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence.
Mustafa Suleyman (The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma)