“ We have tradition that so we believe, because both we from our predecessors, and they from theirs, have so received. ”
- Richard Hooker- Copy
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“ Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. ”
- Ralph Ellison- Copy
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“ I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ An intense anticipation itself, transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
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“ What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Every writer "creates" his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. ”
- Jorge Luis Borges- Copy
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“ I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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“ X is not my real name, but if you study history you'll find why no black man in the western hemisphere knows his real name. Some of his ancestors kidnapped our ancestors from Africa, and took us into the western hemisphere and sold us there. And our names were stripped from us and so today we don't know who we really are… ”
- Malcolm X- Copy
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