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We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates — Robert Moss
Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to… — Sam Francis
Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did our ancestors, they… — David G. McAfee
Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and even interacted with… — David G. McAfee
We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge… — Mahatma Gandhi
To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man.… — Arthur C. Clarke
Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness"… — Carl Jung
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that… — Thomas Jefferson
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering… — Robert Neelly Bellah
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which… — Calvin Coolidge
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. — Edward Dahlberg
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as… — Russell Kirk
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married. — Moliere
I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life.… — Maria Rodale
Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of ourselves and our… — Christopher Tunnard
Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant a seed, we… — Kenny Ausubel
For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained… — Albert Claude
As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and… — Marian Wright Edelman
The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign… — John Sergeant Wise
Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors. — Herbert Agar
. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in… — Swami Vivekananda
Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. — Laurence J. Peter
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. — Edmund Burke
So what is the Dreaming? I would say the Dreaming is a non-indigenous term used in its broadest sense to describe the stories of our… — Hetti Perkins

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