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• Confound these ancestors.... They've stolen our best ideas! -- Ben Jonso
• Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. [Confound those who have said our remarks before us.
  ] or [May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.] -- Aelius Donatu...
• Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. -- Dr. Jonas Salk
• What's good enough for our ancestors is good enough for us.
• It is indeed desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. -- Plutarch
• Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. "Confound those who have said our remarks before us.
  -- Aelius Donatu...
• Words and ideas are what change our world.