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.
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Richard Feynman
Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila
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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is the son of his own works.
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Cervantes
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
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Luther Burbank
More Quotes By Luther Burbank
Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.
I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death,...
Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.
