"Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it."

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Source : Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Philip K. Dick

#Bears Quotes #Aspect Quotes #Should Quotes

“Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.”
“Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and youll have neither a craft nor a community.”
“Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”
“In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of the Royal Society, a body once noted for its cultivation of debate in science, are now leaders of the 'science is settled' camp: the only debate they consider to be legitimate is about choice among the different forms of the centralized action they believe is required to deal with the problems they foresee.”
“In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.”
“Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.”
“The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.”
“In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?”

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