Best Inherited Thoughts
298 Inherited quotes by 268 unique authors
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The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section…
— Cole Younger
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We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
— Abram L. Sachar
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?
— Robert Orben
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The thought of being a creator, of engendering, of shaping is nothing without the continuous great confirmation and embodiment in the world, nothing without the…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do…
— Michael Crichton
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Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate…
— Thorstein Veblen
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I know of a few multimillionaires who started trading with inherited wealth. In each case, they lost it all because they didn't feel the pain…
— William Eckhardt
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Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and…
— Jenna Bush
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The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to…
— Hayden Fry
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage…
— Bill Gates
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Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then…
— Lev Grossman
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I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that…
— Claire Danes
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Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which…
— Stockwell Day
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President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about…
— Alan Dershowitz
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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the…
— Annie Dillard
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You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.
— Brian Eno
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Yes, I've never inherited a penny!
— William Hague
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I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is…
— Miguel Indurain
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I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity…
— Jay-Z
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I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
— Anthony Kiedis
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Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and…
— Annie Lennox
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