Best Inherited Quotations
298 Inherited quotes by 268 unique authors
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Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life…
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have…
— Aristotle
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No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the…
— Edward Bernays
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I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who…
— Liza Minnelli
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I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window…
— Bill Ford
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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself…
— Mark Strand
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For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue…
— Connie Britton
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I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.
— John Mortimer
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I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only…
— Alfred Nobel
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Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems…
— Lemmy Kilmister
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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…
— Murray Bowen
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In the search for character and commitment, we must rid ourselves of our inherited, even cherished biases and prejudices. Character, ability and intelligence are not…
— J. Irwin Miller
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
— Kate Millett
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I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair.…
— Jenny Eclair
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I made my money the old-fashioned way, I inherited it.
— John Raese
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And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
— Charles Darwin
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I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided…
— Christopher Hitchens
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A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe…
— Christopher Hitchens
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A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages;…
— Josiah Johnson Hawes
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When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their offspring the use…
— David O. McKay
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I see the Christian world like this: we've inherited a divided map of the truth, and each of us has a piece. Our traditions teach…
— Michael Spencer
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The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
— Abdallah II
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