Parent Clan

Famous quotes containing the words parent and/or clan:

    My father’s father, his father’s father, his—
    Shadows like winds

    Go back to a parent before thought, before speech,
    At the head of the past.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    We cannot think of a legitimate argument why ... whites and blacks need be affected by the knowledge that an aggregate difference in measured intelligence is genetic instead of environmental.... Given a chance, each clan ... will encounter the world with confidence in its own worth and, most importantly, will be unconcerned about comparing its accomplishments line-by-line with those of any other clan. This is wise ethnocentricism.
    Richard Herrnstein (1930–1994)