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Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is…

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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and…
It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months…
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited…
The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at…
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…

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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
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't.… — Michael Robotham
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all. — Laurence Overmire
The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about… — Tom Brown, Jr.
Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends… — Austin Kleon
In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even… — Leigh Page
Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her… — Rebecca Solnit
The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then… — Elizabeth Jane Howard
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. — Daniel Dennett
There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things… — Henry Louis Gates
The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried. — Joan Didion

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