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After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
Arthur Erickson

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.
William Henry Ashley

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
Francis Parkman

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
J. Philippe Rushton

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Ambrose Bierce

I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
Tia Carrere

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
C. Wright Mills

My life has been one long descent into respectability.
Mandy Rice-Davies

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
Susan Lucci

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
Timothy Garton Ash

The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
Charlotte Smith

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
Anaxagoras

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Virgil

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
Simon Newcomb

We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.
Esai Morales

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