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#ancestors

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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.


Edsger Dijkstra


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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.


Ralph Ellison


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We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.


Paul Tsongas


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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.


Charles Dudley Warner


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