"If your descent is from heroic sires, Show……" — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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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
• No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of… — Franz Boas
• The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African… — Hillary Clinton
• The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African… — Ban Ki-moon
• The descent to Hades is the same from every place. — Anaxagoras
• Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... — Richard Wilbur
• The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start. — Anaxagoras
• It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species';… — Charles Darwin
• I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits… — Mark Twain
• I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but… — Charles Darwin
• Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi

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