Descendants
- Yahya ibn Zayd-
- Yahya ibn Umar- lead an abortive uprising from Kufa in 250 A.H. (864-65 C.E.)
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“We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)
“Your descendants shall gather your fruits.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (7019 B.C.)
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