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I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with… — Oprah Winfrey
We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning. — Deepak Chopra
Nothing has to be accepted just because we inherited it. — Deepak Chopra
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To… — Frank Herbert
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily… — Henry David Thoreau
Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. — Barack Obama
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it… — Charles Caleb Colton
A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. — L. Tom Perry
We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our… — Abbey Lincoln
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst… — Christian Bale
My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it. — Chevy Chase
I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home. — Carole Bouquet
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books — Paracelsus
Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by… — Murray Rothbard
WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency… — Ambrose Bierce
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited… — Carl Sagan
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species:… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps — Thornton Wilder
It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner,… — John Crowe Ransom
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying… — Earle Brown
I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If… — Henry David Thoreau
Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon. — Richard Neal
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so… — Donald Kagan

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