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PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.

Ambrose Bierce

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GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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RECOLLECT, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.
— Ambrose Bierce
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To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root
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Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.
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He's got what I call an outstanding pedigree.
— Tim Purpura
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