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«It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.»
Author: Lewis Thomas (Physician, Writer) | About: Children, Family, Parents | Keywords: cell, gene, genes, grasses, progeny, resemblance, whales
«Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | About: Books | Keywords: active, bred, contain, dead soul, Dead Things, efficacy, extraction, intellect, nay, nays, not absolutely, potency, preserve, progeny, purest, vial, vials
«You, the aspirant for supreme mind, progeny, fortune and wealth..... acting in accordance with your husband's wishes, happily pave your way towards immortality.»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: accordance, aspirant, happily, pave, progeny
«SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Sylphs were allied to gnomes, nymphs and salamanders, which dwelt, respectively, in earth, water and fire, all now insalubrious. Sylphs, like fowls of the air, were male and female, to no purpose, apparently, for if they had progeny they must have nested in accessible places, none of the chicks having ever been seen.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: accessible, chicks, fatally, gnome, gnomes, immaterial, inhabited, insalubrious, nymph, nymphs, polluted, progeny, respectively, salamander, Salamanders, sewers, sewer gas, sylph, Sylphs
«The age of our fathers, which was worse than that of our ancestors, produced us, who are about to raise a progeny even more vicious than ourselves»
Author: Horace (Poet) | Keywords: ancestors, progeny, vicious
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