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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it… — Jack London
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the… — Jeffrey Eugenides
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large,… — Charlotte Bronte
and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the… — Jodi Picoult
My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d left it in… — Karen Chance
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and… — Wendell Berry
Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food… — Chuck Palahniuk
Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again… — Stefan Zweig
The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so… — Jeanette Winterson
You are determined to hate him [Snape], Harry,” said Lupin with a faint smile. “And I understand; with James as your father, with Sirius as… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so… — Joseph Campbell
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.… — George Eliot
A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with earthly possessions, and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these… — Eiichiro Oda
For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of guardian excellence and decorum. My father:… — Richelle Mead
It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying… — Libba Bray
Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted… — Pablo Neruda
You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with the faith you… — Brian D. McLaren
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our… — Daniel Pinchbeck
A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It… — L. Tom Perry
It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old… — Henrik Ibsen
Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to… — Joseph Heller
I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up. — John Green
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. — Thomas Merton
Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that… — Henrik Ibsen

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