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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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

– G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

– Frank Herbert

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The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775

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What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"

– Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

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To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

– Aldous Huxley

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Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

– Walter Lippmann

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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

– Douglas Adams

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Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. Some extremely wealthy people have no class at all, while others who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real. You can't fake it. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you don't have class, no matter what else you have, it won't make up for it.

– Ann Landers

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It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

– Plutarch

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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

– Helen Keller

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I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

– William Frank Buckley, Jr.

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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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