Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential… — Satyananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I don’t know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I could be Jewish; I could be part Negro;… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Delaying giving as a strategy for future kingdom building is risky. We could hold on to assets out of fear of letting… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Let my heiress have full rights, Live in my house, sing songs that I composed. Yet how slowly my strength ebbs, How… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
There is no sickness problem. There is simply a problem of the believer's coming to know his inheritance in Christ. — E. W. Kenyon Copy Share Image
“My ambition is not to leave behind me a pile of money for my heirs to quarrel about, but to find out… — George H. Hepworth Copy Share Image
My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We all know the story of the prodigal son. Confident he knows what is best for him, he recklessly squanders his inheritance.… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
