Inheritance Quotes - Page 3

• The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Money, Doctors

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• To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

  George Orwell

  Ideas, Contradiction, Accepting

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• You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it.

  Murray Bowen

  Life, Knowing, Suffering

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• There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Death Of A Friend, Sorrow

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Gibson Lockhart (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.377

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• Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Years, India, Division

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• Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Men, Chance, Wonder

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

  Georg Brandes

  Truth, Errors, Humanity

  "Ferdinand Lassalle". Book by Georg Brandes, 1881.

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• The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Struggle, Patriotic

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• I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

  Eric Clapton

  Thinking, People, Roles

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• This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.

  Dana Gioia

  Prayer, Loss, Past

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.65, Graywolf Press

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• I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

  Herman Wouk

  Jewish Tradition, Wealth, Jerk

  Time Magazine, September 05, 1955.

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• Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Christian, Years, Democracy

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Law, Judgment

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  War, Civilization, Political

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1967). “Love and justice: selections from the shorter writings of Reinhold Niebuhr”

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• Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.

  Charles Thom

  Life, Science, Ideas

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• Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

  Jean Anouilh

  Fabulous, Murder, Newspapers

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• Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cooacters can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  Science, May, Ignored

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• My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Father, War

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• Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

  Rick Perry

  Children, Desire, Records

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fear, Cutting, Companion

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

  William Labov

  African American, Half, Slavery

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• The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

  Walter Gilbert

  Evolution, Schemes, Humans

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• I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?

  Wynton Marsalis

  Spiritual, Fundamentals, Ability

  "Steve LeVeille interviews Wynton Marsalis". Interview on WBZ Radio, radiofreesteve.wordpress.com. 1994.

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• In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Believe, Survival, Earth

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• All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

  Harold Bloom

  Encouragement, Giving, Poet

  Harold Bloom (2003). “A Map of Misreading”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

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