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Quotations about ancestors

Carl SaganBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

 - Carl Sagan

Tags:   ancestors  books  wisdom  

Edmund BurkePeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

 - Edmund Burke

Tags:   ancestors  ancestry  history  posterity  

Thomas SowellIt is self-destructive for any society to create a situation where a baby who is born into the world today automatically has pre-existing grievances against another baby born at the same time, because of what their ancestors did centuries ago. It is hard enough to solve our own problems, without trying to solve our ancestors' problems.

 - Thomas Sowell

Tags:   ancestors  grievances  problems