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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

~Boris Johnson

Topics: Able Ancestors Exhilaration Freedom Hands Lives Our Own People Should Swim Take Thames Then Want

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Much as I wish it were not so, we do live in a dangerous world. It has, in fact, always been this way. Our earliest ancestors had to worry about predators, natural disasters, disease, and - unique among our species - attacks by other people.

~Brad Schneider

Topics: About Always Among Ancestors Attacks Been Dangerous Disasters Disease Earliest Fact Had In Fact Live Much Natural Natural Disasters Other Our People Predators Species Unique Way Were Wish World Worry I Wish

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In a sense, all Americans are battle-born. Our ancestors came here for something better.

~Brandon Flowers

Topics: All Americans American Ancestors Better Came Here Our Sense Something

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Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

~Brendan Fraser

Topics: Ancestors Invented Maybe Something Sure Wheel

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Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: About Abraham Almost Almost Nothing Ancestors Christianity Faiths He Heart Him Islam Judaism Know Nothing Shared Stands Three You

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One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Act Ancestors Bible Core Day Every Every Day Found God Helps History Ideas Issues Line Long Long Line Meaning Our Own Position Role Sheer Similar Stories Telling Understand Us Well Who World Wrestle

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White Americans, stop apologizing; we live in the greatest country in the history of mankind, and it's there because of our ancestors - those who came to this country and did their very best. And every generation has gotten better at what we're good at.

~Burgess Owens

Topics: American Ancestors Apologizing Because Best Better Came Country Did Every Generation Good Gotten Greatest Greatest Country History Live Mankind Our Stop The History Of Those Very White Who

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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: Ancestors Because Favored Get Had Joke Moon Name Somebody Think Treatment Trying Would

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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Ancestors Call Come Desires Devils Education Fears Forces God Hardly Intended Lives Mainly Meeting My Self Natural Nature Now Perhaps Person Place Really Self Some Something Various Were Which You

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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

~Carl D. Anderson

Topics: Ancestors Heart Home Place Reserved Special Special Place Sweden

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