# Quote — Philip K. Dick, Clans of the Alphane Moon

> Here, the enemy was not merely another group of human beings with a differing political persuasion; the enemy here was death.

- Author: [Philip K. Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick.md)
- Book: [Clans of the Alphane Moon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/clans-of-the-alphane-moon.md)
- Page: 69
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/clans-of-the-alphane-moon/here-the-enemy

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> But frankly—may I so speak?—your CIA people's theory strikes me as a miserable bundle of random suspicions, a few separate facts strung together by an intricate structure of ad hoc theorizing, in which everyone is credited with enormous powers for intrigue. A much simpler view can be entertained with more common sense, and as a CIA employee you must be aware that, like all intelligence agencies, it lacks the faculty of common sense.

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> You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

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> “There’s a law,” Chuck said, “which I call Rittersdorf’s Third Law of Diminished Returns, which states that proportional to how long you hold a job you imagine that it has progressively less and less importance in the scheme of things.”

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