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These seven women are the direct maternal ancestors of virtually all 650 million modern Europeans.
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“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
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“Pressure will squeeze whining out of losers and winning out of achievers.”
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“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
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“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”
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“Discipline equals freedom.”
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