Imagine our descendants in the year 2200 or 2500. They might liken us to aliens who have treated the Earth as if… — Paul J. Crutzen Copy Share Image
Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing… — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were bacteria… [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“It is not the self respect and pride that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind to your children… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
...The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I have lived in the redness of the stones that mark a path through my blood; I am the descendant of a… — Mohammed Khair-Eddine Copy Share Image
The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“it was the kind of moon that I would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to my descendants so… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe… — Sol Saks Copy Share Image
Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising… — Robert L. Reymond Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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