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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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

— Alan Patrick Herbert

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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is. ↗

— Julian Sands

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The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys. ↗

— Julius Streicher

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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. ↗

— John Templeton

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She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to. ↗

— Gypsy Rose Lee

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Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty. ↗

— Paul Harris

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Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

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