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 John Ciardi
And the time sundials tell May be minutes and hours. But it may just as well Be seconds and sparkles, or seasons and flowers. No, I don't think of time as just minutes and hours. Time can be heartbeats, or bird songs, or miles, Or...
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.
I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.
