"Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing."

Source : "How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later". Speech by Philip K. Dick, published in "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" (book by Philip K. Dick), 1978.

Philip K. Dick

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“The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.”
“The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.”
“When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.”
“You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!”
“The more educated the people, the freer they are.”

Source : "'West has no idea what a dictatorship is' - Che Guevara's daughter to RT". RT Interview, www.rt.com. November 20, 2014.
“Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.”
“Hustle is the most important word--EVER.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gary Vaynerchuk from Feb 25, 2015
“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”

Source : Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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