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Then down at the  box in Steven’s hands. They gazed at the box in growing awe. Awe mixed with dawning fear. Steven turned and edged toward his house. “I’ve got to show it to my Dad,” he murmured, dazed. “He’s got to know. Somebody’s got to know!”

Dick, Philip K.. The Philip K. Dick Collection (p. 319). Cedro Classics. Kindle Edition.

Security Commissioner Reinhart rapidly climbed the front steps and entered the Council building. Council guards stepped quickly aside and he entered the familiar place of great whirring machines. His thin face rapt, eyes alight with emotion, Reinhart gazed intently up at the central SRB computer, studying its reading.

Dick, Philip K.. The Philip K. Dick Collection (p. 284). Cedro Classics. Kindle Edition.

Joe Rossi paced back and forth. “Yeah, we’ll be retreating from now on. Giving ground, instead of taking it. It’ll be like this today—losing fights, draws. Stalemates and worse.”

Dick, Philip K.. The Philip K. Dick Collection (p. 248). Cedro Classics. Kindle Edition.

“It’s quite an experience,” Moss said. “They’re almost human.”

Dick, Philip K.. The Philip K. Dick Collection (p. 186). Cedro Classics. Kindle Edition.

“Which is just as well, of course. Man must take control eventually, on his own. One hundred years, and after that they will have control of their own destiny. Perhaps I am wrong, perhaps war is more than a habit. Perhaps it is a law of the universe, that things can only survive as groups by group violence.

Dick, Philip K.. The Philip K. Dick Collection (p. 94). Cedro Classics. Kindle Edition.

“Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!”

Dick, Philip K.. The Philip K. Dick Collection (p. 59). Cedro Classics. Kindle Edition.

“Don’t you see? This was the only way they knew, building a gun and setting it up to shoot anything that came along. They were so certain that everything was hostile, the enemy, coming to take their possessions away from them. Well, they can keep them.”

Dick, Philip K.. The Philip K. Dick Collection (p. 27). Cedro Classics. Kindle Edition.