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Walter Bagehot

"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."

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"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."

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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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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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"A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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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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