“The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.” PeopleLongBornLinesInstinctWesternInstanceFighterPeculiarAncestorSectionsCountyMissouriLong Lines Author:Cole Younger
“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.” LongSelfMemoriesEternalIntellectualMereFactorsChainsAncestorAncestryAllegoryChained Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.” WayYearsLongTwoSeemsPresidentFourInformationProduceMembersWork OutLengthBroadsFour YearsAncestorDoomedEldersWhalesCabinetsBreadthAcresFootnotesWhirlpools Author:Will Cuppy