quotes about Descent
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
-- AnaxagorasSource : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers), c. 200 A.D..
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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
-- Charles DarwinSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinism,
-- Errol White -
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Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.
-- Florian ZnanieckiSource : William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki, Eli Zaretsky (1996). “The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A Classic Work in Immigration History”, p.132, University of Illinois Press
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Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
-- Horace -
My life has been one long descent into respectability.
-- Mandy Rice-DaviesSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.
-- Rita Ora -
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I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
-- W. S. GilbertSource : W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.637, Oxford University Press
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The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
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For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.
-- William Carlos Williams -
The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.
-- Steve HouseSource : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
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