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«We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children»
Author: David Brower
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ancestors, borrow, borrows, children, inherit, inheriting, inherits, the Earth
«We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us»
Author: Robert Atkyns
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Parliament
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Act of Parliament, ancestors, ancient, chose, common law, consented, parliament, parliaments
«Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.»
«Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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ancestors, brutal, gentleman, honorable, island, Jew, priests, savages, Solomon, temple, Temple of, The temple
«Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.»
«The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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ancestors, draws, hero, inspiration
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