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It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

~Abdullah Ii Of Jordan

Topics: Ball Burden Descendants Direct Drop Family Going Had Leadership Muhammad Prophet Responsibility Shift Shoulders Tremendous Years

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There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting at least some form of compensation and closure for the horrors visited upon their families.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Among Back Closure Compensation Descendants Families Form Getting Holocaust Horrors Interest Least Lot Some Victims Visited Were

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There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Air Believe Centuries Change Choose Climate Climate Change Come Dealing Descendants Ethical Game Hands Happen Just Our Over Pathway Reality Really Right Rosy Say Scenario Throw Up Whatever Where Will I Believe Ahead

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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

Topics: America Beginning Color Descendants Done In The Beginning Knows Long Maybe Nearly Only Our See Something Survive Who Will

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You see those guys wearing baggy pants, descendants of the parachute pants, wearing an odd, weird Frankenstein haircut. It all comes out of Peter Lorre.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Baggy Descendants Frankenstein Guys Haircut Odd Out Pants Parachute Peter See Those Wearing Weird You

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'The Descendants' somehow made death and adultery funny at times.

~Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Topics: Adultery Death Descendants Funny Made Somehow Times

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To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

~Augustus Hare

Topics: Adam Among Descendants Good His Home Paradise

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The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Bible Cultures Descendants Dialogue Other People Stories Story Time Who Why

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Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Topics: Ancient Bums Community Crazy Crazy People Descendants Holy Immense Modern People Poets Storytellers Traveling

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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

Topics: About Between Contemporary Descendants Differences Early Fifties Might One Way Postmodern Sixties Start Talking Way Writers

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