All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs. The human race had slowly evolved until it was in a position to operate things, run them as it saw fit. Now all at once it had been plunged back down the ladder again, prostrate before a Power against which they were children.
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DICK Era come se avessi tremato per tutta la vita, a causa di una cronica corrente sotterranea di paura. ... PHILIP K. DICK If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right,... PHILIP K. DICK A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it... PHILIP K. DICK Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothin... PHILIP K. DICK The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow. PHILIP K. DICK We're blind moles. Creeping through the soil, feeling with our snoots. We know nothing. I perceived ... PHILIP K. DICK They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe ... PHILIP K. DICK Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, ... PHILIP K. HOWARD A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what. K All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination. K. FORD K. Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. PHILIP TREACY Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. PHILIP TREACY I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&... PHILIP GREEN I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. PHILIP GREEN You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ... PHILIP GREEN I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I... PHILIP GREEN You've got to love what you do to really make things happen. PHILIP GREEN They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex... PHILIP GREEN We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige... PHILIP YANCEY Either I will find a way, or I will make one. PHILIP SIDNEY I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless. PHILIP GREEN Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. PHILIP TREACY Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. PHILIP MASSINGER My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v... PHILIP ZIMBARDO Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi... PHILIP ZIMBARDO Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species... PHILIP ROTH Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion PHILIP WYLIE All this, and Heaven too! PHILIP HENRY Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ... PHILIP ZIMBARDO It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos... PHILIP SIDNEY Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in y... PHILIP PULLMAN The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. PHILIP EMEAGWALI Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim ... PHILIP CROSBY The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w... PHILIP CALDWELL Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't ... PHILIP LARKIN Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers
Of such as do offend, make less the sin. PHILIP MASSINGER I got a good heart but my attitude gat people thinking I'm evil GENEREUX PHILIP A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm... PHILIP ROTH A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un... PHILIP ROTH Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the bru... PHILIP LARKIN Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagina... PHILIP PULLMAN After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely p... PHILIP STREIFER I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes rea... PHILIP PULLMAN