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“A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.”

Has Beens Enjoy Thirds Inheritance Heirs

Author:Juvenal

“Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.”

Children Eye Sex Parent Roles Feet Blue Lifestyle Inheritance Blue Eyes Parent Child

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light.”

Source: I explain a few things: selected poems

“You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.”

Source: The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928

“Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.”

Literature Planets Ideals Dignity England Inheritance Personal Freedom Personal Dignity

Author:Karel Capek

“One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.”

Doe Care Certain Business Responsibility Spring Fortune Satisfaction Hearing Graves Bliss Steady Inheritance Solemn Pondering Brows

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.”

Humans Important Process Accepting Roles Behavior Tradition Enormous Scope Inheritance Implications Transmission

Author:Ruth Benedict

“The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.”

Children Action Creation Prisoner Inheritance

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.”

Spiritual Values Father Legacy Inheritance Strength Of Will

Book:Hammer

Source: Hammer

“Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.”

Ifs May Long I Can Desire Quality Kindness Trouble Kings Treats France Gentle Rough Lions Offensive Inheritance Find Me Troublesome Cubs I May Not Be Lioness

Author:Elizabeth I

“It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurturing nature. This is your inheritance. Never belittle the gifts God has given to you. Develop the divinity that is within you.”

Kind Spiritual Young Given Born Quality Holy Blessing Daughter Gentle Sensitive Divinity Within You Inheritance Exquisite Nurturing Belittle Daughter Of God Women Of God

Author:Margaret D. Nadauld

“The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.”

Years Hard Hard Work Huge Taxes Heritage Penalties Estates Inheritance After Death Imposing Inheritance Tax Estate Taxes

Author:Mike Fitzpatrick

“Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.”

People Different Courses Social Enjoy Interest Community Rights Security Gay Taxes Advantage Raised Civil Rights Boards Social Security Inheritance Vested Interests Gay Community

Author:Janis Ian