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 Samuel Butler
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change...
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
