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Famous quotes containing the words numbers and/or marked:

    The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)

    Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
    Charles Churchill (1731–1764)