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• Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

  Plato

  Plato, Honor, Noble

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• But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising their autonomous right to determine for themselves the true, the good, and the beautiful. They became, in their understanding, their own authority, and their fallen descendants ever since that time have claimed a similar autonomy from God

  Robert L. Reymond

  Beautiful, Exercise, Understanding

  Robert L. Reymond (2010). “A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith: 2nd Edition - Revised and Updated”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• ...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the next few centuries. And one can only imagine our future, shivering, ice age descendants cursing us for leaving them no fossil fuel to create a global warming "greenhouse" effect when one is really needed.

  John Harte

  Ice, Leaving, Age

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• Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may be the last opportunity to choose our own and our descendants’ destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world.

  John Holdren

  Opportunity, Destiny, Choices

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• It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Credentials, Refugee, Elizabeth Ii

  The Observer, July 03, 1977.

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• 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 we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  People, Inheritance, Monkeys

  "A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1931.

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• We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit.

  Sol Saks

  Men, Fire, Pits

  Sol Saks (1991). “Funny Business: The Craft of Comedy Writing”, Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC

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• I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud that I am a countryman of yours, you the descendants of the sages, you the descendants of the most glorious Rishis the world ever saw. Therefore have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Proud, Saws

  Swami Vivekananda (1932). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

  Ogden Nash

  New Year, Years, Long

  Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

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• This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

  David Foster Wallace

  Talking, Differences, Might

  Interview With Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

  Greg Egan

  Years, Branches, Diaspora

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• That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.

  William Howard Taft

  Army, Virginia, Battle

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• We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.

  James Connolly

  Children, Men, Long

  James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”

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• When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers who held (as their descendants now hold) that matter is but one of the correlations of spirit, then will the world of skeptics have a right to reject the old Wisdom, or throw the charge of obscenity in the teeth of the old religions.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Teeth, World, Matter

  H. P. Blavatsky (1994). “Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)”, p.583, Quest Books

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• The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the Nation cannot and do not look to it for relief. Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Destiny, America, Soldier

  Letter to Oliver Downing. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 15, 1889.

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• I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.

  Sam Walton

  Hate, Fall, Use

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.98, Bantam

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• If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

  James Hansen

  Nature, Climate, World

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them". www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2009.

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• I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Passion, May

  Thomas Jefferson, Barbara B. Oberg (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 29: 1 March 1796 to 31 December 1797”, p.424, Princeton University Press

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• The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Work, Years

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• [God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

  Ezola B. Foster

  America, Scary, Slave

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• Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Brain, Age, Machines

  "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies". Book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2014.

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• Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

  Ayn Rand

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Reality

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.21, Penguin

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• I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

  Al Pacino

  Melting, Pot, Grew Up

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Invention, Letdowns, I Realized

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Children, Successful, Average

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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