“We should feel empowered by where we came from and who we are, not hide it. It is important to acknowledge that everything we do affects our ancestors as much as they have affected us.”

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

Regarding cultural identity; as quoted as publisher of Celtic Family Magazine.

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American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer 1975

Kristin Cast book Tempted

Source: Tempted

“We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.”

P. C. Cast book Tempted

Source: Tempted

“It was important to have compassion, [which, she added, came ]] partly from acknowledging we are one.”

Waheeda Rehman (1938) Indian actress

Quote, Take risks and don't fear failure: Waheeda Rehman

“First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

Page 40.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)

“Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.”

Emily Giffin book Where We Belong

Source: Where We Belong

“Who are the men, who, without our realizing it, give us our ideas, tell us whom to admire and whom to despise, what to believe about the ownership of public utilities.. about immigration who tell us how our houses should be designed, what furniture we should put into them, what menus we should serve at our table, what kind of shirts we must wear, what sports we should indulge in, what plays we should see, what charities we should support, what pictures we should admire, what slang we should affect, what jokes we should laugh at?”

Edward Bernays book Propaganda

Source: Propaganda (1928), p.59

“There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.”

Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge

Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49, 52 (1949).
Judicial opinions

“We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.”

François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs

Il ne faut pas s’offenser que les autres nous cachent la vérité puisque nous nous la cachons si souvent à nous-mêmes.
Maxim 11 from the Manuscrit de Liancourt.
Later Additions to the Maxims

“We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“We can not predict who will develop the cancer. Cancer is a just disease – it affects everyone, regardless of whether we are poor or rich, where we live, how we live.”

Marek Sanak (1958) Polish scientist

Mazurek, Maria (13 May 2016): Komórki rakowe to anarchizujące potwory https://gazetakrakowska.pl/komorki-rakowe-to-anarchizujace-potwory/ar/9985395. Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish), pp. 18–19.

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