"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was." Abraham Lincoln
How true. It does not matter what our parents or grandparents did, we have to stand on our own. Sure our backgrounds give us advantages. It is said that Bill Gates is as successful as he is partly because he was born and lived in Seattle, very near the university where he could go and work on computers --- years before most of the rest of us had access to computers. The book, Outliers, by Malcolm Goldberg describes such serendipitous upbringings. But, for most of us, we can build on the foundation that our ancestors created for us, but we must create our own lives and opportunities.
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