Quotes with descended

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  • Winston Churchill From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.
    Iron Curtain Speach, 05-03-1946
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • George S. Patton It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Plutarch It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.
    The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 12, p. 245
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Bayard Taylor So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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