If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal.
But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.


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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I...
PHILIP GREEN
You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
PHILIP GREEN
They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex...
PHILIP GREEN
We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige...
PHILIP YANCEY
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
PHILIP SIDNEY
I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
PHILIP GREEN
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
PHILIP TREACY
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
PHILIP MASSINGER
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species...
PHILIP ROTH
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion
PHILIP WYLIE
All this, and Heaven too!
PHILIP HENRY
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...
PHILIP SIDNEY
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim ...
PHILIP CROSBY
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w...
PHILIP CALDWELL
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't ...
PHILIP LARKIN
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
PHILIP MASSINGER
I got a good heart but my attitude gat people thinking I'm evil
GENEREUX PHILIP
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm...
PHILIP ROTH
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un...
PHILIP ROTH
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the bru...
PHILIP LARKIN
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely p...
PHILIP STREIFER
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly whe...
PHILIP ROTH
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruit...
PHILIP MASSINGER
If God could run out of grace, He would’ve for me by now. And yet every morning I wake up, He says...
GENEREUX PHILIP
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God ...
PHILIP YANCEY
Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of o...
GENEREUX PHILIP
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
PHILIP KNIGHT
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
PHILIP MASSINGER
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
PHILIP WYLIE
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so...
PHILIP ROTH
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you con...
PHILIP ROTH
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the...
PHILIP GUEDALLA
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
PHILIP JOHNSON
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, an...
PHILIP ROTH
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER
When in doubt, delete it.
PHILIP COSBY
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
PHILIP ROTH
For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devil'...
PHILIP LARKIN
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
PHILIP MASSINGER
We do pretty much whatever we want to.
PHILIP JOHNSON
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turn...
PHILIP LARKIN
It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
PHILIP GIBBS
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
PHILIP MASSINGER
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w...
PHILIP CALDWELL
I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxf...
PHILIP GUEDALLA
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall...
PHILIP MASSINGER
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth...
PHILIP ROTH
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is form...
PHILIP ROTH