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Charles Davenport

"Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe."

Charles Davenport, American Scientist
People, Custom, Kings, Law
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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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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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."

Douglas Adams, English Writer
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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."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist
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"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

Douglas Adams, English Writer
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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."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright
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"I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that."

Joel Silver, American Producer
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