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The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees… — Will Durant
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for… — John Dewey
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no… — Samuel Johnson
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the… — Chief Seattle
Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more… — Carl Sagan
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession,… — Mary McCarthy
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion. — Christopher McDougall
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived. — Richard Leakey
Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors… — Thomas Banchoff
The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written… — Randy Wayne White
The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors. — Denis Parsons Burkitt
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation. — Reverend Malcolm Boyd
One of our ancestors came over on the Mayflower, and we had family in Jamestown as well... I was raised where service was a part… — Steve Daines
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the… — Immanuel Velikovsky
The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the… — Jacob G. Hornberger
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit… — Crazy Horse
That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to… — Nainoa Thompson
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came… — William J. Clinton
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University,… — Evelyn Waugh
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out… — Phyllis George
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is… — Richard Dawkins
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. — Frank Herbert
We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern… — Thor Heyerdahl
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. — E. W. Howe
Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials,… — Annie Lennox

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