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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each… — Kadmi Cohen
For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd. — Susan Faludi
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir… — Arthur Balfour
Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators. — Michio Kaku
My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family,… — Celia Imrie
Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned. — Jon Gries
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. — Thomas B. Macaulay
There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives… — Michel de Montaigne
A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation. — James Atlas
Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet… — Napoleon Bonaparte
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian… — Bayard Taylor
British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of… — Mike Harding
The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far… — Paul Davies
All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry… — Henry Louis Gates
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. — Charles Darwin
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which… — R. D. Laing
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. — H. L. Mencken
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. — Plutarch
If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is… — Edward Gibbon

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