"The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves."

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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Thomas Mann, German Writer

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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

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"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

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