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Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was...

—Amin Maalouf

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My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.

—Kangna Ranaut

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AncestorsRoyal
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We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mobius strip, until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.

—Colum McCann

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AncestorsFamily
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Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

—Raquel Cepeda

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AncestorsAncestryBuild
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I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.

—Larry Neal

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It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions. This slight-of-hand has been the cause of countless blood-shed and has been found...

—Steve Maraboli

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AncestorsEmpoweredGod
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Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.

—Amit Kalantri

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Amit-KalantriAncestorsCreative
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Don’t drive a car in the dream, else you won’t drive it on earth. Don’t wish to become, else you won’t become. Don’t associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don’t be addicted...

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

—DaShanne Stokes

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More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory or, more specifically, our natural ability to carry the past in our bodies...

—Raquel Cepeda

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AncestorsAncestral-ContinuumAncestral-Dna
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Turn that worthless lawn into a beautiful garden of food whose seeds are stories sown, whose foods are living origins. Grow a garden on the flat roof of your apartment building, raise bees on the...

—Martin Prechtel

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Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned...

—Amos Wilson

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AncestorsCompensationDamages
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Our Ancestors came to Australia, foraged for food in a rain forest where AM grew, ate the AM, and suffered the effects of muscimol hallucinations in a cave and drew paintings of a religious nature...

—Leviak B.

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He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn’t mind.

—Helen Oyeyemi

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AncestorsOfferingWriting
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When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves…sometimes even physically.

—Raquel Cepeda

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AncestorsAncestryIllumination
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It is so awkward that how our ancestors wasted their whole life and never thought about education or making difference for the future generations. My Grandfather lived more than a 100+ years, married 3 women...

—M.F. Moonzajer

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AncestorsAwkwardEducation
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A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Let’s pray for our country, nation and for godly leaders. Pray that we the people will humble ourselves and turn from our wicked ways back to God. Then our leaders will restore the ancient landmarks...

—Buky Ojelabi

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AncestorsAncient-LandmarksCountry
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I don’t think my journey has to be harrowing to be important. Simply doing the tasks of the day is enough. Such as getting up every morning to go to work to support my family...

—Mike Ericksen

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AncestorsFamilyJourney
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Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the...

—James W. Loewen

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AncestorsDeath-And-DyingGhosts
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You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.

—Toba Beta

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AncestorsFairy-TalesFuture
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Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in...

—Norman Doidge

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Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

—Tad Williams

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There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man…there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to...

—Anthon St. Maarten

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AncestorsAncient-CultureAncient-Wisdom
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Over the course of the millennia, all these multitudes of ancestors, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time—to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another...

—Laurence Overmire

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AncestorsGenealogyGenerations
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I got very interested, and I started researching my own ancestors. It’s been a passion and a hobby since then.

—Gary Lloyd

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AncestorsPassion
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So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants

—Publius Tacitus

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To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be...

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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it was the kind of moonthat I would want to send back to my ancestorsand gift to my descendantsso they know that I too,have been bruised…by beauty.

—Sanober Khan

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You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese alive today and those of our honored ancestors. You literally carry Japan upon your back.

—Atsuko Abe

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AncestorsJapanPrime Minister
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History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

—Laurence Overmire

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AncestorsCelebrityGenealogy
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Dychwelyd i wlad eich hynafiaid; gwaed yn galw i waed.Return to the land of your fathers; blood calls to blood.

—Horton Deakins

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AncestorsMagicWales
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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.

—Richard Brinsley

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Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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AdviceAncestorsCalling-People
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I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

—William Phelps

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So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend’s...

—Christopher Hitchens

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AncestorsAnnie-NavaskyAntisemitism
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Here it is necessary briefly to consider the question of the cult of ancestors before venturing farther. The spirits of the departed are believed to be possessed of supernatural powers which they did not enjoy...

—Lewis Spence

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AncestorAncestorsDead
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I am the now of the then. My body is the embodiment of all my ancestors who came before me. They live on in me.

—Jarod Kintz

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AncestorsBodyEmbodiment
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To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.

—Robert T.

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AncestorsSeemsWarm
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You and I probably wouldn’t be here if our ancestors hadn’t been greedy savages.

—Mark Pagel

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AncestorsGreedyHere
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Frankly, our ancestors don’t seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn’t care about what would happen to the...

—Suzanne Collins

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AncestorsMockingjayWar
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No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and – as a special class within the whole – mental events, to which it belongs as a reacting member and which it...

—Erwin Schrödinger

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AncestorsSelfVedanta
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We’re all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.

—Liam Callanan

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AncestorsDeathGhosts
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Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

—Daniel J.

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AncestorsConnectionFlexibility
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We must strive to become good ancestors.

—Ralph Nader

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AncestorsStrive
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We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

—Mikhail Saakashvili

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No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The “I” is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

—Erwin Schrödinger

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AncestorsEternityMemory
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As a nation, a society, a family and an individual, we must be grateful to our great ancestors who dedicated their lives to laying the infrastructure of our livelihood today. Let ‘ s continue their...

—Master Kwon

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Leading up to my life is a long line of dead bodies. These are my ancestors, and I respect them, but I’m glad I don’t have to bury them all. I just have to bury...

—Jarod Kintz

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