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Culture: Shared Human Experience.
Culture is the shared set of beliefs, values, behaviors, and practices that are learned and transmitted across generations within a group. It is deeply meaningful to human life because it provides a framework for understanding the world, navigating social interactions, and shaping our identities, ultimately giving us a sense of belonging and purpose.
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
“To me! To me!”
— Aleister Crowley
Non-fiction authors from England
Mystics
Occultists
AstrologersContext: • II:70-71
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
“But exceed! exceed!”
— Aleister Crowley
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Scarface: The World Is Yours" (Tony Montana)
“Wanna play with me?”
— Unknown
2006 video games
PlayStation 2 video games
Xbox video games
Windows video gamesU
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Scarface: The World Is Yours" (Tony Montana)
“You want a job, man?”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, VALIS (1981):
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
“Fish cannot carry guns.”
— Phillip K. Dick
Science fiction authors from the United States
Short story writers from the United States
Novelists from the United States
Philosophers from the United States# Culture & Mystics
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Context: • Chapter 12 (p. 131)(This and the next six quotes are referred to by the author as "Thingisms")
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Lies, Inc. (1984): Originally published as The Unteleported Man in 1964, republished with additional material in 1983. Published with further additional material as Lies, Inc. in 1984.
All page numbers from the 2004 Vintage trade paperback edition, )
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Lies, Inc. (1984): Originally published as The Unteleported Man in 1964, republished with additional material in 1983. Published with further additional material as Lies, Inc. in 1984.
All page numbers from the 2004 Vintage trade paperback edition, )
“The book business is hidebound.”
— Phillip K. Dick
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Martian Time-Slip (1964))
“I'm not much, but I'm all I have.”
— Phillip K. Dick
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Context: • Chapter 7 (p. 118)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, A Scanner Darkly (1977):
All page numbers from the 1991 Vintage trade paperback edition )
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, A Scanner Darkly (1977):
All page numbers from the 1991 Vintage trade paperback edition )
“Where there's dope, there's hope!”
— Phillip K. Dick
Context: • II:28-29
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
“May Because be accursed for ever!”
— Aleister Crowley
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Context: • Chapter 11 (p. 124)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Lies, Inc. (1984): Originally published as The Unteleported Man in 1964, republished with additional material in 1983. Published with further additional material as Lies, Inc. in 1984.
All page numbers from the 2004 Vintage trade paperback edition, )
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Lies, Inc. (1984): Originally published as The Unteleported Man in 1964, republished with additional material in 1983. Published with further additional material as Lies, Inc. in 1984.
All page numbers from the 2004 Vintage trade paperback edition, )
“You're a goldmine of misinformation.”
— Phillip K. Dick
# Culture & Novelists from the United States
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Hunter S. Thompson" (Quotes, 2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004))
“I shit on the chest of Fun.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
1937 births
2005 deaths
AbsurdistsContext: • Source: Wikiquote: "Hunter S. Thompson" (Quotes, 2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004))
“We shit on the chest of Weird.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "William S. Burroughs" (Quotes, Junkie (1953))
“Sodomy is as old as the human species.”
— William S. Burroughs
Academics from the United States
Essayists from the United StatesP
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, VALIS (1981):
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
“The Empire Never Ended”
— Phillip K. Dick
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, VALIS (1981):
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
“"matter is plastic in the face of mind."”
— Phillip K. Dick
# Culture & Novelists from England
Context: • Pt. I.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Thomas De Quincey" (Quotes, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Thomas De Quincey" (Quotes, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856))
“The burden of the incommunicable.”
— Thomas De Quincey
Journalists from England
Memoirists from England
1785 births
1859 deaths
Context: • Ch. XXVIII
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aldous Huxley" (Quotes, Crome Yellow (1921))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aldous Huxley" (Quotes, Crome Yellow (1921))
“The proper study of mankind is books.”
— Aldous Huxley
1894 births
1963 deaths
Academics from England
AgnosticsContext: • Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
“Now a curse upon Because and his kin!”
— Aleister Crowley
Context: • I:63-66
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
“The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.”
— Aleister Crowley
Context: • p. 238
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972))
“I sing for God, our Devil, our Lord, Aiwaz.”
— Aleister Crowley
# Culture & Absurdists
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Context: • Chapter 27 (p. 213)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974):
All page numbers from the 1993 Vintage trade paperback edition )
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974):
All page numbers from the 1993 Vintage trade paperback edition )
“To live is to be hunted.”
— Phillip K. Dick
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Context: • Chapter 12 (p. 132)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Lies, Inc. (1984): Originally published as The Unteleported Man in 1964, republished with additional material in 1983. Published with further additional material as Lies, Inc. in 1984.
All page numbers from the 2004 Vintage trade paperback edition, )
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Lies, Inc. (1984): Originally published as The Unteleported Man in 1964, republished with additional material in 1983. Published with further additional material as Lies, Inc. in 1984.
All page numbers from the 2004 Vintage trade paperback edition, )
“The vidphone company let me off the hook.”
— Phillip K. Dick
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Hunter S. Thompson" (Quotes, 2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004))
“Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, VALIS (1981):
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
“Mental illness is not funny.”
— Phillip K. Dick
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, VALIS (1981):
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
“Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.”
— Phillip K. Dick
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