Best Inherited Sayings
298 Inherited quotes by 268 unique authors
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Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual…
— Charles Darwin
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Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.
— Martin Luther
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The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the rights we have inherited from…
— Henry Demarest Lloyd
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We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring…
— Forrest Church
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My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow,…
— Edvard Munch
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Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
— C. Wright Mills
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It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.
— Christine Gregoire
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Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in…
— G. Edward Griffin
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I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.
— Mark Udall
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President Carter inherited an impossible situation -- and he and his advisers made the worst of it.
— Gaddis Smith
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Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
— Michael Shermer
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I believe in intelligence, and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a…
— Peter Medawar
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If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
— Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes…
— Khalil Gibran
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Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they…
— H. L. Mencken
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Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it…
— E. O. Wilson
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Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or…
— Gianni Vattimo
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In this conversation we discover another possibility: living in a way, now, moment to moment, that makes a difference to life. We discover that as…
— Werner Erhard
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Until what is significant is created by you, you aren't living your life, you are living some inherited life.
— Werner Erhard
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Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From this vantage point,…
— Larry Graham
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For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.
— Marie Windsor
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When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't…
— Tavis Smiley
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To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is…
— Frances Farmer
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In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion…
— Isak Dinesen
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Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.
— Mary McCarthy
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