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— Ralph Waldo Emerson"In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is."
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.
— Maya Angelou
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