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  1. A quotation from Josh Billings

    The reputashun that a man gits from hiz ansesstors often wants az mutch altering to fit him, az their old clothes would.
     
    [The reputation that a man gets from his ancestors often wants as much altering to fit him, as their old clothes would.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-10 “Blossoms” (1877 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85419/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #ancestors #family #familytree #forefathers #heritage #legacy #reputation

  2. A quotation from Josh Billings

    The reputashun that a man gits from hiz ansesstors often wants az mutch altering to fit him, az their old clothes would.
     
    [The reputation that a man gets from his ancestors often wants as much altering to fit him, as their old clothes would.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-10 “Blossoms” (1877 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85419/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #ancestors #family #familytree #forefathers #heritage #legacy #reputation

  3. A quotation from Josh Billings

    The reputashun that a man gits from hiz ansesstors often wants az mutch altering to fit him, az their old clothes would.
     
    [The reputation that a man gets from his ancestors often wants as much altering to fit him, as their old clothes would.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-10 “Blossoms” (1877 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85419/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #ancestors #family #familytree #forefathers #heritage #legacy #reputation

  4. A quotation from Josh Billings

    The reputashun that a man gits from hiz ansesstors often wants az mutch altering to fit him, az their old clothes would.
     
    [The reputation that a man gets from his ancestors often wants as much altering to fit him, as their old clothes would.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-10 “Blossoms” (1877 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85419/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #ancestors #family #familytree #forefathers #heritage #legacy #reputation

  5. A quotation from Richard Steele

    The prevailing humour of crying up authors that have writ in the days of our forefathers, and of passing slightly over the merit of our contemporaries, is a grievance that men of a free and unprejudiced thought have complained of through all ages in their writings.

    Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
    Essay (1713-04-09), The Guardian, No. 25

    More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/85367…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #ancestors #authors #era #forefathers #generations #goldenage #goodolddays #greatness #literarycriticism #nostalgia #past #perspective #present #writers

  6. A quotation from Richard Steele

    The prevailing humour of crying up authors that have writ in the days of our forefathers, and of passing slightly over the merit of our contemporaries, is a grievance that men of a free and unprejudiced thought have complained of through all ages in their writings.

    Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
    Essay (1713-04-09), The Guardian, No. 25

    More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/85367…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #ancestors #authors #era #forefathers #generations #goldenage #goodolddays #greatness #literarycriticism #nostalgia #past #perspective #present #writers

  7. A quotation from Richard Steele

    The prevailing humour of crying up authors that have writ in the days of our forefathers, and of passing slightly over the merit of our contemporaries, is a grievance that men of a free and unprejudiced thought have complained of through all ages in their writings.

    Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
    Essay (1713-04-09), The Guardian, No. 25

    More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/85367…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #ancestors #authors #era #forefathers #generations #goldenage #goodolddays #greatness #literarycriticism #nostalgia #past #perspective #present #writers

  8. A quotation from Richard Steele

    The prevailing humour of crying up authors that have writ in the days of our forefathers, and of passing slightly over the merit of our contemporaries, is a grievance that men of a free and unprejudiced thought have complained of through all ages in their writings.

    Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
    Essay (1713-04-09), The Guardian, No. 25

    More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/85367…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #ancestors #authors #era #forefathers #generations #goldenage #goodolddays #greatness #literarycriticism #nostalgia #past #perspective #present #writers

  9. A quotation from Richard Steele

    The prevailing humour of crying up authors that have writ in the days of our forefathers, and of passing slightly over the merit of our contemporaries, is a grievance that men of a free and unprejudiced thought have complained of through all ages in their writings.

    Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
    Essay (1713-04-09), The Guardian, No. 25

    More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/85367…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #ancestors #authors #era #forefathers #generations #goldenage #goodolddays #greatness #literarycriticism #nostalgia #past #perspective #present #writers

  10. A quotation from Ingersoll

    The fact is, very few men are right in everything. Great virtues may draw attention from defects, but they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. No one should attempt to refute an argument by pronouncing the name of some man, unless he is willing to adopt all the ideas and beliefs of that man. It is better to give reasons and facts than names. An argument should not depend for its force upon the name of its author. Facts need no pedigree, logic has no heraldry, and the living should not awed by the mistakes of the dead.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #ancestors #argument #authority #debate #defect #elders #facts #fallacy #feetofclay #forefathers #imperfection #perfection #truth #virtue

  11. A quotation from Ingersoll

    The fact is, very few men are right in everything. Great virtues may draw attention from defects, but they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. No one should attempt to refute an argument by pronouncing the name of some man, unless he is willing to adopt all the ideas and beliefs of that man. It is better to give reasons and facts than names. An argument should not depend for its force upon the name of its author. Facts need no pedigree, logic has no heraldry, and the living should not awed by the mistakes of the dead.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #ancestors #argument #authority #debate #defect #elders #facts #fallacy #feetofclay #forefathers #imperfection #perfection #truth #virtue

  12. A quotation from Ingersoll

    The fact is, very few men are right in everything. Great virtues may draw attention from defects, but they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. No one should attempt to refute an argument by pronouncing the name of some man, unless he is willing to adopt all the ideas and beliefs of that man. It is better to give reasons and facts than names. An argument should not depend for its force upon the name of its author. Facts need no pedigree, logic has no heraldry, and the living should not awed by the mistakes of the dead.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #ancestors #argument #authority #debate #defect #elders #facts #fallacy #feetofclay #forefathers #imperfection #perfection #truth #virtue

  13. A quotation from Ingersoll

    The fact is, very few men are right in everything. Great virtues may draw attention from defects, but they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. No one should attempt to refute an argument by pronouncing the name of some man, unless he is willing to adopt all the ideas and beliefs of that man. It is better to give reasons and facts than names. An argument should not depend for its force upon the name of its author. Facts need no pedigree, logic has no heraldry, and the living should not awed by the mistakes of the dead.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #ancestors #argument #authority #debate #defect #elders #facts #fallacy #feetofclay #forefathers #imperfection #perfection #truth #virtue

  14. A quotation from Ingersoll

    The fact is, very few men are right in everything. Great virtues may draw attention from defects, but they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. No one should attempt to refute an argument by pronouncing the name of some man, unless he is willing to adopt all the ideas and beliefs of that man. It is better to give reasons and facts than names. An argument should not depend for its force upon the name of its author. Facts need no pedigree, logic has no heraldry, and the living should not awed by the mistakes of the dead.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #ancestors #argument #authority #debate #defect #elders #facts #fallacy #feetofclay #forefathers #imperfection #perfection #truth #virtue

  15. Forgotten Keepers of the #RioGrandeDelta

    An industrial buildout on the southern tip of Texas is erasing the last traces of an ancient world that still hasn’t died.

    by Dylan Baddour
    May 13, 2024

    "This society has been trying to get rid of #Mancias’ people for 500 years. It couldn’t kill them all, so it’s destroying the evidence that they ever existed. That’s what Mancias sees as 100-ton bulldozers flatten the hills his #ancestors camped on, churn up their bones, and casually crush them into rubble, removing these last traces of their world.

    " 'They almost annihilated us, and that #genocide continues,' Mancias said. 'To destroy the #environment you have to destroy the people who protect it.'

    "He faces a formidable foe here at the last frontier for oil and gas on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Every other major inlet from the Mississippi River west through Port Arthur, Houston, Freeport, Lavaca Bay, and Corpus Christi is already ringed with #refineries, #ChemicalPlants, and terminals.

    "But at the farthest tip of #Texas, the #RioGrande meets the Gulf between #WildlifeRefuges, a #StatePark, and a majestic #wilderness that still shelters endangered and little-known #wildlife.

    "This is where Houston-based developer #NextDecade has begun constructing an $18 billion #MegaProject, which it called the 'largest greenfield energy project [financed] in U.S. history' when it announced in 2023 that it had secured investors to proceed.

    "Named #RioGrandeLNG, the 750-acre facility will eventually pipe in up to 27 million tons per year of gas from #fracked wells in the #PermianBasin, supercool it to negative 260 degrees fahrenheit, and load it onto #TankerShips for sale overseas as liquefied natural gas (#LNG). It’s part of an explosion of lookalike projects that quickly made the United States the world’s top exporter of liquefied gas and drove soaring gas production at home.

    "On an adjacent tract, another project called Texas LNG intends to build atop a site called #GarciaPasture—an ancient village ground where people lived seasonally for almost 800 years. The World Monument Fund calls it 'one of America’s premier #archaeological sites.' That project has its permits and awaits investor commitments before breaking ground.

    "And about 5 miles away, #SpaceX continues to expand its #Starbase complex, where it manufactures and launches the most powerful #rockets in the world (which occasionally explode and fall to earth).

    "Mancias fears this is just the beginning.

    " 'All of this will be gone,' he said, driving his pickup truck down a highway through the marshes. 'They’re going to destroy all of this.' "

    Read more:
    texasobserver.org/forgotten-ke

    #DefendingTheSacred #SacredSites
    #TexasObserver #InsideClimateNews #BigOilAndGas #CulturalGenocide #CorporateColonialism #ElonSucks #MegaProjects #Pollution #Fracking #SpaceIndustry #DefendTheSacred #EndangeredSpecies

  16. tonight i am honouring my ancestors, & in particular tante (aunt) grarda, my granddad's sister, who lived her whole adult life in an asylum like this. i don't know why.

    #GifsArtidote:
    i am going back home for #yuletide in a few weeks, & i plan to visit my family ancestors graves & maybe the asylum. i think it's still an asylum today, so i want to pay my aunty respect & see if they have any information about her. i never met her 😪, but right now i can so deeply relate to her, cause i am grateful i live today. sofar i haven't been sectioned yet, thank fuck. that's why i am fighting authority today, for my self & my family, on both sides, who have suffered mental illness & trauma like hell for generations.

    youtu.be/wXusWhcmyn4?

    #press #media #psychology #GenerationalTrauma #recovery #ancestors #family #BPD #ChronicDepressionDisorder #DysthymicDisorder
    #CPTSD #history #LearnLifesLessons
    Toxic System Toxic Family Toxic Self

    #RestInPower my beautiful family, i 🖤 you all, i respect you all & i will honour your memory for ever. ☮️🏴

  17. A quotation from Montesquieu, Baron de:

    «
    Horace and Aristotle already told us about the virtues of their forefathers and the vices of their times, and authors down through the centuries have spoken in like manner. If they had told the truth, men would nowadays be bears.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/montesquieu/71511/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #ancestors #decay #era #goldenage #nostalgia #ancestors #forefathers #degeneracy #past #present

  18. A quotation from Montesquieu, Baron de:

    «
    Horace and Aristotle already told us about the virtues of their forefathers and the vices of their times, and authors down through the centuries have spoken in like manner. If they had told the truth, men would nowadays be bears.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/montesquieu/71511/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #ancestors #decay #era #goldenage #nostalgia #ancestors #forefathers #degeneracy #past #present

  19. A quotation from Montesquieu, Baron de:

    «
    Horace and Aristotle already told us about the virtues of their forefathers and the vices of their times, and authors down through the centuries have spoken in like manner. If they had told the truth, men would nowadays be bears.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/montesquieu/71511/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #ancestors #decay #era #goldenage #nostalgia #ancestors #forefathers #degeneracy #past #present