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— Sydney J. Harris"Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are."
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Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.
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