'Heredity' - Thomas Hardy
A human life is nothing in itself; it is part of a family tree. We are continuously living the ancestral life, reaching back for centuries, we are satisfying the appetites of unknown ancestors, nursing instincts which we think are our own, but which are quite incompatible with our character; we are not living our own lives, we are paying the debts
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she had succumbed to that profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death—the drive to seek immortality through progeny.
Frank Herbert • Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film (The Dune Sequence Book 1)
both living bodies and those of our ancestors since our DNA and memories live in each other.
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
We carry the past around with us all the time, and not just in our bodies. It lives also in our customs, including the way we speak. The past is a set of invisible lenses we wear constantly, and through these we perceive the world and the world perceives us. We stand always on the shoulders of our ancestors, whether or not we look down to acknowled
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