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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
- I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. — Tia Carrere
- Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
- As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine
- From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious… — Edwin Louis Cole
- Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of… — Theodore Roosevelt
- No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have… — Franz Boas