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I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Ancestors Believer Build Building Continuity Envy Hindus Important Ingredient Memory Most Nation Past Philosophy Religion Those Which Who Worship

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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Also Ancestors Cannot Christianity Demand Distant Likelihood Our Past Recall Remember Then We Cannot Worship

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Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

~Fiona Apple

Topics: Alive Always Ancestors Could Happen Our Thing Thought Why Worst Worst Thing

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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

~Francis Herbert Hedge

Topics: Ancestors Every Every Man Fortune He Heir His Man Own Past

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All sorts of other lies are being spread today, I do not know what else they will invent. I've heard that I'm of Jewish descent, but I found, I knew of my ancestors in Zagorje from around 350 years ago, and I said, maybe it would be good to have some of that, I guess I would be richer, I might not have become a Communist.

~Franjo Tudjman

Topics: Ancestors Around Become Being Communist Descent Else Found Good Guess Heard Invent Jewish Knew Know Lies Maybe Might Other Richer Said Some Sort Spread Today Will Would Years Years Ago

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To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.

~Frank Delaney

Topics: Ancestors Build Identities Our Reconnect Stories Understand

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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

~Frank Herbert

Topics: Ancestors Escape Our Pay Violence

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Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Ancestors Biologist Couple Current Eyes Had Institutions Long Moral Old Only Our Really Systems Thousand Thousand Years Very Which Years

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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

~Frederick Henry Hedge

Topics: Ancestors Every Every Man Future He Heir His Man Own Past

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I believe I am connecting to angels and spirit guides and ancestors. All of that is falling under the category of God and the energy presence of God, and that is what I can tap into when I tune in and slow down.

~Gabrielle Bernstein

Topics: Am Ancestors Angels Believe Category Connecting Down Energy Falling God Guides Presence Slow Spirit Tap Tune I Am I Can I Believe

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