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533 Ancestors quotes by 412 unique authors
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There are more temples across the earth than there have ever been. More people in all the world have felt the Spirit of Elijah move…
— Henry B. Eyring
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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able…
— Boris Johnson
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Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at…
— John B. Watson
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We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have…
— Alan Keyes
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People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or switch away. Strangers…
— John Fowles
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Latinos have fought in all of America’s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq,…
— Joe Baca
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You know, my name .... comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov. And I believe…
— Charles Schumer
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I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called…
— Heinrich Himmler
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While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact,…
— Cornelius Castoriadis
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It is wrong to leave the ANC, in fact, it is cold and rough outside the ANC. People must remain in the party and try…
— Jacob Zuma
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The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy
— Jacob Zuma
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A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his…
— Blake Bailey
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I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.
— Jeremy Paxman
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Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in…
— Richard Allen
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Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up…
— Vine Deloria, Jr.
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There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little…
— Calvin Johnson
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American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.
— Spike Lee
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The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going…
— E. O. Wilson
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Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear…
— Ernst Mayr
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We humans are in such a strange position—we are still animals whose behavior reflects that of our ancestors, yet we are unique—unlike any other animal…
— Patricia McConnell
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Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold…
— Mother Jones
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You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from…
— Cory Booker
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We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past
— Dmitri Volkogonov
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Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a…
— David Suzuki
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The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.
— Scott McCloud
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