We Inherit Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
— George Chapman
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Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some…
— Terence McKenna
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We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
— Janette Turner Hospital
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So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans create stories long…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is…
— Herbert Read
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I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us.…
— Henrik Ibsen
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Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.
— Jonah Lehrer
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The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.
— Drew Endy
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Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead…
— John McGahern
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as…
— Salman Rushdie
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
— Nawal El Saadawi
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My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly.…
— Aimee Friedman
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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
— Tony Benn
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Our reputation is shadow of our character, and the shadow is of our virtue and values which we inherit.
— Anil Sinha
Who Wrote These We Inherit Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 We Inherit Quotes as follows: