“We have survived multiple ice ages, we have knocked down mammoths, we are carriers, we are heirs to the greatest civilization that ever existed.”
Baudet's speech: 5 remarkable statements and what they mean. https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/politiek/artikel/4650251/de-speech-van-baudet-forum-voor-democratie-5-opmerkelijke
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The People's Rights [1909] (London: Jonathan Cape, 1970), p. 154
Early career years (1898–1929)

“But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.”
Source: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons

Quoted in "Standing Up for Freedom," http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1 Academy of Achievement.org (2005-10-31)

“Now we have lit a candle to the power
Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light
Itself…”
Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)

USENET posting to rec.sf.arts.fandom http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.fandom/browse_frm/thread/303b0da0ab25aee/b12adceacd343279 28 September 2000, in the discussion of Robert A. Heinlein's quote "The cowards never started and the weaklings died on the way." (Expanded Universe, How to be a Survivor in the Atomic Age)
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