A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  1. Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for approbation the peculiar elements that come from some supposedly Jewish heredity is to open the door to all kinds of nonsense on racial theory. - Richard Feynman

  2. Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids. - Fiston Mwanza Mujila

  3. A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  4. Every man is the son of his own works. - Cervantes

  5. Heredity is nothing but stored environment. - Luther Burbank

More Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
  1. Love, and you shall be loved.

  2. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  3. The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

  4. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  5. It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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