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Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.
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genealogy
persona
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Orson Scott Card |
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I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the Levant, and passing through Eastern and Central Europe before crossing to the British Isles. And all of this knowable by an analysis of the cells on the inside of my mouth. I almost prefer the more rambling and indirect and journalistic investigation, which seems somehow less... deterministic.
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ancestry
british-isles
central-europe
determinism
eastern-europe
genealogy
genetics
history
investigation
journalism
levant
mediterranean-sea
national-geographic
savanna
sub-saharan-africa
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Christopher Hitchens |
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My name's Elai, Ellai's daughter, line of the first Cloud, the first Elly; of Pia, line of the first Jin when they made the world. And you're on my land.
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genealogy
land
ownership
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C.J. Cherryh |
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...the understanding of any person is an exercise in genealogy. A man is not a static organism to be taken apart and analyzed and classified. A man is movement, motion, a continuum. There is no beginning to him. He runs through his ancestors, and the only beginning is the primal beginning of the single cell in the slime. The proper study of mankind is man, but man is an endless curve on the eternal graph paper, and who can see the whole curve?
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genealogy
mankind
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Wallace Stegner |