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““A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.””

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So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of…

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Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that…

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“That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.”

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For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

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Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man,…

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The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath…

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The church of my choice is the free, open world.

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“I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.”

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“What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.”

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You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love…

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What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being…

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