When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe Copy Share Image
The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man. — Saadi Copy Share Image
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with. — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger. — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary,… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“And so,' smiled the Witcher, 'I have no choice? I have to enter into a pact with you, a pact which should… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable… — E.S. Russell Copy Share Image
“He was impressed with his father's fiction and noticed certain stylistic tics that he shared, and figured it was genetic. Why would… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“When power is discovered, man always turns to it," Bateson wrote darkly. "The science of heredity will soon provide power on stupendous… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Out of all of the sects in the world, we notice an uncanny coincidence: the overwhelming majority just happen to choose the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
“This is implied in the assertion that a man shows certain behavior because he was “born that way.” To object to this… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott Copy Share Image
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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