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«To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root»
«Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.»
Author: Frederick Henry Hedge
| About:
Destiny,
Mankind
| Keywords:
ancestor, devises, devising, heir, inheriting, inherits
«[It] is not a monkey, not an ape and not a human, but it's a common ancestor of them all.»
«I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.»
Author: William Gaddis
| Keywords:
ancestor, binary, grandfather, nightmare, piano player, player piano, The Player
«GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
account, ancestor, an account, descent, genealogies, genealogy, particularly, trace, tracing
«We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquired, ancestor, brilliant, distant, exalted, fidelities, fidelity, in a moment, merge, merging, proud of, ridiculously
«PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancestor, arboreal, bladder, bladders, cigarette, descendant, pedigree, pedigrees, swim bladder, urban
«He is no great heir that inherits not his ancestor's virtues»
«The ancestor of every action is a thought.»
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