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Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

~David Novak

Topics: Become Defined Descendants Divine Does Election His Israel Jew Jewish Own Status

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Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Descendants Garbage Generations Immediate Keep Most Next Our Perhaps Poll Radioactive Requires Ridiculous Solution Suggestion Think Use I Think

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If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

~Diane Von Furstenberg

Topics: Continue Descendants Good Good Person Goodness Person Through Will You Your

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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

Topics: Ancestors Blood Boast Descendants Family Finish Much Never Noticed Often Rather Start Tell Tells Than Too Too Much Who Will Would

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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Correct Descendants Destruction Diversity Folly Forgive Genetic Going Least Likely Loss Millions Millions Of Years Natural Now Our Process Species Take Us Will Years

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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Appeared Benefit Carefully Connecticut Descendants Did England Everything Founded Governed History Kept Large Mainly Massachusetts Men New New England Often Papers Posterity Seriously States The History Of Themselves Took Track United United States Who Whole Writ

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There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.

~Edward Ball

Topics: Act After Apologizing Become Begin Between Descendants Every Families Hundred Meaningless Quickly Slaves Thousand Were Would

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Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

~Eric Liu

Topics: About America Capitalist China Communists Decades Decline Descendants His Lost Mao Now Power Question Seems Seized Six Stage Stand Washington Who World World Stage Worries

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Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that.

~Fantastic Negrito

Topics: About Created Culture Descendants Keep Pop Pop Culture Real Respectful Slaves Very World

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Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.

~Fidel Castro

Topics: Abolish Abraham Abraham Lincoln African Before Brutal Continue Cuba Descendants Enslavement Even Form Hardly Lincoln Presidency Slavery States Thirty United United States Until Years

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