Philip K. Dick Quotes
This one fact alone, Rachmael reflected, should have frightened the rational citizen. But-The people did not know. The media had not reported it.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.
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When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise.
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
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You can give a guy a funny line, but you can't make him say it funny.
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This one fact alone, Rachmael reflected, should have frightened the rational citizen. But-The people did not know. The media had not reported it.
