"We are supposed to be the children of……" — Anthony Burgess

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• The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness… — Conrad Grober
• There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all… — Olaus Murie
• Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral… — Daniel Gordis
• My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from… — Ana Mendieta
• It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your… — V.S. Naipaul
• The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in… — Carl Jung
• Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge… — Petrarch
• Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience… — Rosy Cole
• The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded… — Ross Macdonald
• Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to… — Ernst Mayr
• The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge. — Austin Osman Spare
• Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral… — Kathy Reichs

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