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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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"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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"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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