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Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not

Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. – Ambrose Bierce

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Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. – Ambrose Bierce

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Sabbath – a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. – Ambrose Bierce

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From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor. – Proverb

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Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. – Van Wyck Brooks

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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Everyone is wise until he speaks. – Proverb

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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny. – Barbara Jordan

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Ill think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? Thats the only fear I have for myself. – Sugar Ray Leonard

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