"My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed……" — William Shakespeare

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• For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is… — Cory Booker
• As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin… — Daniel J. Boorstin
• My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to… — Elayne Boosler
• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
• Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a… — Buzz Aldrin
• Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it… — Herman Cain
• My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited. — Eric Cantona
• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in… — George H. W. Bush
• We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to… — Woodrow Wilson
• Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the… — George W. Bush
• An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to… — Ernst Haeckel

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