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• Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon." "Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug. Percy stifled a laugh. "Actually he's more like a great-great-...Oh, never mind. Yeah, he's your brother." "Thanks." Frank mumbled through a mouthful of flannel.

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Laughing, Hug

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• Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Fall, Men, Race

  Arthur W. Pink (2002). “The Attribute to God”, p.78, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• It makes no difference to me whether I shoot you or you fall to your death.” “It does make a difference,” I said, my voice small but confident. “You and I share the same blood.” I lifted my hand precariously, showing him my birthmark. “I’m your descendant. If I sacrifice my blood, Patch will become human and you’ll die. It’s written in The Book of Enoch.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Book, Fall, Sacrifice

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Together, Truth Is

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

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• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Heart, Cities

  'A Tale of Two Cities' (1859) bk. 3, ch. 15 (Sydney Carton's thoughts on the scaffold)

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• I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

  Charles Dickens

  Husband, Lying, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.348, Xist Publishing

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• A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

  Carl Sagan

  Miracle, Would Be, Mars

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.309, Ballantine Books

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• I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Giving, Tree

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• For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Forever, Degrees

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Common Sense: With the Whole Appendix: the Address to the Quakers: Also, the Large Additions”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

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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

  Blood, Literature, Too Much

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.136, Penguin

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• I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Eye, Space

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.196, Random House

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• I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

  Yoko Ono

  Japan, Grandfather, Important

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• Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.

  Neal Stephenson

  Badass, Self, Numbers

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• If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  People, Ifs

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• Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

  Marco Rubio

  Dreamer, Believer

  "War of Choice" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our descendants from this life. It is also to have eternal increase.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Forever, Inheritance

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• The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fate, America, People

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 8, 2012.

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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

  America, Worry, Six

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• There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.

  Anthony Marra

  Memories, Years, Family And Friends

  Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.132, Random House

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• When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

  John Ruskin

  Father, Future, Men

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Wrath, Race, Color

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, People, Justice

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• One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

  Herman Bavinck

  Men, Common, Sin

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• The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Inspiring, Wise

  Herbert Spencer (1865). “First Principles of a New System of Philosophy”, p.123

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• The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is 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

  War, Loss, Government

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