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Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change. Michael Specter
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The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. Thomas Overbury
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When I arrive somewhere, I often ask local residents about their ancestry and tales and legends of the area. Enthusiastic villagers could help find the location and offer to lead the way. That helps a lot. Hong Feng
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. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them. Jane Austen
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Mr. Lincoln, I believe your grandfather was a farmer in Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin
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I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks. Diana Quick
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One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground Samuel Butler
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I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. W. S. Gilbert
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I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors. Larry Neal
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Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to. Eliza Haywood
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What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person! - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting D. James
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We're not apologizing for it. We boast about it. It's an efficient use of time and resources. Terry Denbow
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell. E. F. Benson
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. Edwards Deming
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But what they did not know - and what the Canadian government did not boast about - was that Canada had fallen to 35th place in the world in the number of troops it had committed to peacekeeping missions. Paul Ford
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My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.' Martin O'Malley
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If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance. Bern Williams
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I don't think we saw this coming. I thought we were ready. But there are not many conferences who can boast a 12 seed as good as West Virginia. We approached this game like we were the underdog having lost to them, but maybe that wasn't the right way to do it. Tom Collen
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We started out a little rough, but we stepped it up in the fourth quarter. We wanted to win. We wanted the bragging rights, but we all were looking forward to this game. Ben Alexander
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When I talk to friends about Western Kentucky University, I brag about how good they have been. Mike Carter
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Let us know what earmarks, for example, your members of Congress are bragging about, tell us about them, and together we'll track down what they're really all about. Ellen Miller
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I was born in North Carolina but moved to a suburb just outside of Philadelphia when I was 5, so mostly grew up there. I decided I wanted to become an actor when I was 8 years old. I literally heard a friend on the playground bragging about how he was taking acting classes and thought, 'Oh! That's what I'm supposed to be doing!' Sarah Steele
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In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging. Brad Pitt
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I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year. Ed Lee
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Bragging often precedes begging. B. C. Forbes
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It ain't bragging if you can do it. Dizzy Dean
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She used to brag to me that she had beachfront property. Now her property's in the Gulf, Jim Johnstone
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Three years ago I would have said, 'Tell me why I owe YOU one? Mack Brown
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The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have. Ellen McLaughlin
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She has served her time for now. She does not owe the state any more time. She will not be on parole or anything. Mike Viesca
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If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours. John Maynard Keynes
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I don't know that I owe them an apology, Benedict Lucchesi
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I would say trustworthy too, but he owes me money. Joshua Jackson
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I think we owe it to them with what they did for us during Hugo, John Lane
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He got us into it. He owes it to the American people to get us out. Howard Dean
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We owe Pawtucket something. They played us very tough. Rich Miller