My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.
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PHILIP SCHAFF The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood. PHILIP YANCEY Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so i... PHILIP YANCEY I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poem... PHILIP LARKIN I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'C... PHILIP KERR Don’t come back when you realize that I’m rare GENEREUX PHILIP I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and ... PHILIP PULLMAN Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. PHILIP ROTH I don't play head games... I come from a family that could easily be called Generous to a fault. GENEREUX PHILIP Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the i... PHILIP REEVE Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidde... PHILIP LARKIN I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so t... PHILIP JOHNSON America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats. PHILIP TREACY I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner. PHILIP JOHNSON A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel. PHILIP TREACY You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of G... PHILIP YANCEY Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religi... PHILIP REEVE Fake is the new real,You gotta keep a lot a shit to yourself. GENEREUX PHILIP My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this littl... PHILIP TREACY You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain poi... PHILIP JOHNSON I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world ... PHILIP SCHULTZ Overthinking is parasitic. It’s viral. It’s deadly, even. Letting yourself fall victim to overth... GENEREUX PHILIP That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to ... PHILIP PULLMAN I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it,... PHILIP PULLMAN In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Chris... PHILIP YANCEY Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely th... PHILIP JOHNSON If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... t... PHILIP SIDNEY Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. PHILIP MASSINGER I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. PHILIP EMEAGWALI Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with w... PHILIP ROTH The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that the... PHILIP GREENSPUN My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York ... PHILIP MORRISON I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most ... PHILIP SCHULTZ When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As... PHILIP EMEAGWALI