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 | "A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits
of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his
wants." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Breed is stronger than pasture." | |
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George Eliot
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| "He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the
achievements of the foremost men of later times." | |
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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| "Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility
for our shortcomings." | |
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Doug Larson
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| "Heredity is nothing but stored environment." | |
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Luther Burbank
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| "I don"t know who my grandfather was; I"m much more concerned to know
what his grandson will be." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a
man of merit." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are
absolutely no limitations to where you can go." | |
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James Baldwin
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| "Never say you know a man till you have divided an inheritance with
him." | |
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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| "One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade." | |
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Proverb
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| "Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last
people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with." | |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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| "Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors." | |
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Dr. Jonas Edward Salk
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| "PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor
with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to
their ancestors." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you
are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a
super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success
isn"t based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have
developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never ? yes, never ? sell
yourself short." | |
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David. J. Schwartz, PhD
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| "Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name." | |
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Lucan
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| "The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of
that which we have in others." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "The family you come from isn"t as important as the family you"re
going to have." | |
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Ring Lardner
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| "The hen is an egg"s way of producing another egg." | |
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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious Ancestry is
like a potato, - the only good belonging to him is underground." | |
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Thomas Overbury
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| "There is no king who has not had a slave among his Ancestors, and no
slave who has not had a king among his." | |
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Helen Adams Keller
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| "Therefore, though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their
spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those
of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits
who have been reserved to live in this" | |
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Neal A. Maxwell
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| "They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead
of their discharge." | |
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Edward Young
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| "Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to
search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought
to produce." | |
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Isaac Barrow
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| "We did not inherit the land from our forefathers- we are borrowing
it from our children." | |
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Unknown
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| "Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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