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Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted. — Raymond Charles Barker
We are the ancestors of our grandchildren's children. We look after them, just as our ancestors look after us. We aren't here for ourselves. We… — Roy Sesana
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first… — Christopher McDougall
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a… — George Gaylord Simpson
When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and… — Philip Carr-Gomm
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when… — P D Ouspensky
From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is… — Neil MacGregor
When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically. — Raquel Cepeda
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and… — Benjamin E. Mays
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our… — Huey Newton
It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be done… — Damon Knight
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories,… — Unknown Author
The wisdom of our ancestors. — Edmund Burke
Black History is enjoying the life of our ancestors who paved the way for every African-American. No matter what color you are, the history of… — Unknown Author
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave… — Walter Lippmann
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of… — Charles Lamb
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life… — Swami Vivekananda
The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless… — Glenn T. Seaborg
We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities,… — Ishmael Beah

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