The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
One thing that's likely: How you look as you age is hereditary. Some of my family members, for example, look younger than… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Certainly, it includes that. I want the story to be interpreted in as many ways as possible, and of course, the bad… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse. — Charles Jules Henry Nicole Copy Share Image
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in… — Oswald Avery Copy Share Image
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself… — Plato Copy Share Image
If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare. — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
