A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Woodrow Wilson
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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 Woodrow Wilson
  1. You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if...

  2. We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

  3. You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

  4. We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

  5. We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

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