{"quotes":[{"text":"We should have known much more than our ancestors.But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["ancestor","know","learn","less","stupid"],"id":20651,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.","author":"Roger Scruton","tags":["ancestor","ancestors","belief","below","civilization","emotion","pattern","patterns","threaten","threatened","use","useful"],"id":55634,"author_id":"Roger+Scruton"},{"text":"An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.","author":"Ernst Haeckel","tags":["ancestor","biogeny","biology","common-ancestor","evolution","irrefutable","irrefutable-proof","proof","science","single-cell"],"id":56470,"author_id":"Ernst+Haeckel"},{"text":"He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.","author":"Arthur C. Clarke","tags":["ancestor","apes","death","sadness","science"],"id":106781,"author_id":"Arthur+C.+Clarke"},{"text":"This is Roshana, the last queen of the Amulen Empire, back when my people ruled all the lands from the east to the west. She is something of a legend among us. Every queen aspires to learn from her mistakes.”“Her mistakes? Surely you mean her victories.”“What?”I frown at her. “Roshana was one of the greatest queens in the world. She ended the Mountain Wars, she routed Sanhezriyah the Mad, she—”“For a foreign serving girl, you are strangely well versed in Amulen history.”“I spent a lot of time in libraries as a girl.”“Were you there to dust the scrolls or read them?”“Surely Roshana’s victories outweigh her errors.”“The higher you rise, the farther you fall. For all her wisdom, Roshana was fooled by the jinni, believing it was her friend, and then it destroyed her. Ever since that day, my people have hunted the jinn. There is no creature more vicious and untrustworthy.”“This is not the story I heard,” I say softly. “My people tell it differently. That the jinni truly was a friend to Roshana but was forced to turn against her. That she had no choice.”“Surely I know how my own ancestress died,” returns the princess, a bit hotly. “Anyway, it was a long time ago, but we Amulens do not forget.","author":"Jessica Khoury","tags":["ancestor","betrayed","caspida","history","jinni","mistakes","past","princess-caspida","queen-roshana","roshana","story","victories","zahra"],"id":119194,"author_id":"Jessica+Khoury"},{"text":"If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall,then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["abyss","ancestor","boundary","flat-earth","presumption","surrounding","think","universe","wall"],"id":129529,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["ancestor","forget-the-past","pain","prehuman","truth"],"id":257911,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"That sure as fuck ain't no cow.","author":"Scott Sigler","tags":["ancestor","cow","horror","scott-sigler","thriller"],"id":293209,"author_id":"Scott+Sigler"},{"text":"It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["ancestor","ancestors","ancestry","inner-strength","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","root","roots","strength","strength","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise","wise-sayings","wise-thoughts","wise-words"],"id":296581,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affirmative-action","ancestor","ancestors","bless","blessed","consolation","consolation-prize","console","curse","cursed","equality","female","females","feminism","feminist","feminists","forefather","forefathers","gender","gender-equality","gender-gap","girl","girls","glass-ceiling","god","humor","humour","inequality","international-women-s-day","matriarchy","patriarchy","satire","vagina","vaginas","woman","women","women-s-day"],"id":317007,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}