#descendant

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

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Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands? ↗

— Joseph Howe

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Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us. ↗

— Michael Johnson

#believe #benefited #descendants #difficult #gene

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. ↗

— Alice Walker

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Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat. ↗

— George C. Williams

#crossing #descendant #digestive #each #end

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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Your descendants shall gather your fruits. ↗

— Virgil

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And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#built #came #descendants #havana #here

If our future generations were much wilier than us, then it might be them who have led us all this time, to make decisions which fit to their pre-existence, left us live in the world of uncertainty or by faith. ↗

— Toba Beta

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