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• The family believes that my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a horrible injustice. We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well.

  Mark Felt

  Country, Believe, Hero

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• My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life; my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they bestowed on me the promise of America, which made my life and my choices possible.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Father, America

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• My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.

  Aga Khan IV

  Art, Book, Past

  "My Beloved Grandfather: A few words by Mowlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan IV". www.amaana.org. November 1977.

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• My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

  James Nicoll

  War, Example, Died

  Usenet article, 2003.

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• The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

  Marina Abramovic

  Brother, Fall, Sacrifice

  "Interview: Marina Abramović" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

  William Poundstone

  Assumption, Paradox

  "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.

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• I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.

  Kellan Lutz

  Coins, World, Ancient

  Source: collider.com

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• To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.

  Donald Hall

  Years, Ignorant, Glimpse

  Donald Hall (2015). “The Selected Poems of Donald Hall”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.

  Dichen Lachman

  Cousin, Uncles, Aunt

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• I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

  Nelly Furtado

  Driving, Photograph, Donkey

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• To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail.
  
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  The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.

  Desmond Tutu

  Running, Teenage, Block

  "An international campaign : Build moral pressure to end the occupation" by Desmond Tutu, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2002.

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• Sometimes you don't know if your memory is because you really experienced it or because you look at your old pictures. I have a nice picture of myself held up by my grandfather and my father standing next to me. We all have the same name - we're all called Anton Corbijn. That's something I cherish.

  Anton Corbijn

  Memories, Father, Nice

  "Anton Corbijn’s Spy Games". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2014.

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• I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Coffins, Remember, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

  Marc Andreessen

  War, Entrepreneur, Today

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• Did your great-grandfather have any children?

  Fern Britton

  Children, Great Grandfather

  "Live television is 'a high-wire act with no safety net'" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2011.

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• A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.

  Marvin Sapp

  Powerful, Regret, Thinking

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• If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

  John F. Kennedy

  Albatross, Company, Left

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• A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mistake, Men, Realist

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• A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Father, Writing

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• No matter what ailed you, a small glass of schnapps would take care of it at once. This particular remedy was so good my grandfather would frequently take the cure even before there was anything wrong with him.

  Molly Picon

  Drinking, Glasses, Care

  Molly Picon (1962). “So Laugh A Little”

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• My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'

  Bernie Mac

  Girlfriend, School, Wife

  "'Bernie Mac Show' Kicks Off Second Season Tonight". "CNN Live At Daybreak", www.cnn.com. September 18, 2002.

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• My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame.

  Martine Franck

  Cousin, Fall, Two

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• I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.

  Christopher Walken

  Uncles, Father, Play

  "Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy'". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2013.

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• My father and grandfather were stockbrokers, and they would actually take stock certificates from a vault, give it to a runner, and send it to another vault. Then somebody said, "Let's digitize it and have one vault." Now the DTCC clears and settles almost everything, and the cost of doing a trade is a tenth of what it was before.

  Jamie Dimon

  Father, Giving, Cost

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.

  Kevin Allen

  Real, Boys, Knocked Down

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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