Descent Quotes
156 quotes by 141 authors
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
— Tia Carrere
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.
— Franz Boas
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The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This is an opportunity…
— Hillary Clinton
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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
— Anaxagoras
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Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
— Richard Wilbur
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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
— Anaxagoras
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It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything…
— Charles Darwin
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I…
— Mark Twain
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is…
— Charles Darwin
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the…
— Sri Aurobindo
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From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent;…
— E.S. Russell
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Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may…
— Thomas Hunt Morgan
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If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How…
— Ibn Hazm
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We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of individual groups or…
— Matthew Coon Come
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Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep
— Garrison Keillor
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In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
— John Updike
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As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one…
— Will Cuppy
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