I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Hunger Descendant Temper Have

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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, descend the many memories of pain.

Aeschylus

Vision Night Descend Pain

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We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Charles Darwin

Man Learn Descended Quadruped

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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

Born Descendant Emperor Family

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Saint Augustine

Begin Clouds Descending First

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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

A.P. Herbert

About Anything Descend Earth

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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

Africa America Ancestors Been

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Ere I descend to th' grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books.

Abraham Cowley

Books Few Friends Garden

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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Disloyal Confuse Honest Doctrine

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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

Virgil

Descendant Gather Fruits

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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Plutarch

Ancestors Belongs Desirable Glory

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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Elizabeth I of England

Fear Nature Descend Destruction

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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Daniel Boone

Hand Blessings Scatter Amidst

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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

Wise man Remember Past Future

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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

James Cameron

Balances Brooding Civil Civil Servants

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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

David Foster Wallace

Between Contemporary Descendants Differences

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If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

Bernard Malamud

Hear His voice When prayers Go up

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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

Alfred de Vigny

Descend Conscience Judge Minds

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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

Alice Walker

Life descends The pit Own candle Willingly burning

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There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

Stephen Fry

No limit Tyrannical snobbery Decent people Can descend

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I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Aeschylus

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Charles Darwin

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

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Saint Augustine

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

A.P. Herbert

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

Ere I descend to th' grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books.

Abraham Cowley

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Virgil

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Plutarch

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Elizabeth I of England

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Daniel Boone

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

Herbert Spencer

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

James Cameron

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

David Foster Wallace

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

Bernard Malamud

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

Alfred de Vigny

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

Alice Walker

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

Stephen Fry

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