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• Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Blessed, Animal

  "The Endangered Species Act: Preserving Wildlife, Wonder and Our Natural Heritage for 40 Years" by Jamie Rappaport Clark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

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• ...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need not and will not be deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Growth, Balance, Important

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.96, Best Books on

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• Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Art, Carpe Diem, People

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1022, Best Books on

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• More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each generation, they have proved to be the most restless, the most adventurous, the most innovative, the most industrious of people. Bearing different memories, honoring different heritages, they have strengthened our economy, enriched our culture, renewed our promise of freedom and opportunity for all.

  William J. Clinton

  Memories, Opportunity, America

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998".

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• Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

  Albert Pike

  Mistake, Ignorance, Humility

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Slave

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• The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Christian, Fall

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• Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Flower, Clouds

  Thomas De Quincey (1856). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater, and Selected Essays”

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• The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in the great classical liberal tradition that built the United States and bestowed on us the American heritage of individual liberty, a peaceful foreign policy, minimal government, and a free-market economy.

  Murray Rothbard

  Past, Government, Peaceful

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• The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer have the freedom to direct their own lives ... Today, it is the government that is free - free to do whatever it wants. There is no subject, no issue, no matter ... that is not subject to legislation.

  Harry Browne

  Responsibility, Issues, Government

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• A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Order, Other Cultures, Community

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• Lincoln's appeal to "the better angels of our nature" failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals bequeathed to the Union, cemented with blood, a moral heritage which, when drawn upon in times of stress and strife, is sure to find specific ways and means to surmount difficulties that may appear to be insurmountable.

  Felix Frankfurter

  War, Stress, Mean

  Concurring, Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 1958.

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• The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to their children - their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete ambitions. In this way diseases pass on from one generation to another.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Ambition, Giving

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• We should be in the business of protecting cherished institutions and our cultural heritage, otherwise what, I ask, is a Conservative party for? Indeed we are alienating people who have voted for us for all their lives, leaving them with no one to vote for.

  Edward Leigh

  Party, Gay, People

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. February 5, 2013.

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• Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Buddhism, Long

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.47, Friederich Nietzsche

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• We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Self, Years

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

  Tony Abbott

  Country, People, Celebrate

  "Program "Tony Abbott on Q and A" Transcript". www.abc.net.au. April 05, 2010.

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• I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Thinking, Noble, World

  "The Atlantic" Magazine, March 1964.

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• Hopefully, the drivers will be able to race without running over one another. Anything with a heritage like this racetrack, I would not have messed with it. I would have saved my money.

  Mark Martin

  Running, Race, Able

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• Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers have had a great influence outside of her organization. … The importance of Theosophy in modern history should not be underestimated. Not only have the writings of Blavatsky and others inspired several generations of occultists, but the movement had a remarkable role in the restoration to the colonial peoples of nineteenth century Asia of their own spiritual heritage.

  Robert S Ellwood

  Spiritual, Writing, Organization

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• I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Black And White, Reality, Color

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Science, Civilization, Chinese

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Reading, Home

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• Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earth's resources are held as the common heritage of all of the earth's people can we truly say that there is intelligent life on Earth.

  Jacque Fresco

  Intelligent, Technology, People

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• Music has shaped men’s fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads but music and fashion are connected genetically.

  Hedi Slimane

  Witty, Fashion, Military

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