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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part...
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self....
