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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
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Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.Fiston Mwanza Mujila
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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
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Every man is the son of his own works.Cervantes
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Heredity is nothing but stored environment.Luther Burbank
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One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.Olin Miller
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A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.Woodrow Wilson
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Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.Van Wyck Brooks
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Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended but the glory belongs to our ancestors.Plutarch
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With him for a sire and her for a dam What should I be but just what I am?Unknown
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The child is father to the man.William Wordsworth
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Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.John Ciardi
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The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.Austin OMalley
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The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.Thomas Overbury
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A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.Anonymous
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The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy.Emily Dickinson
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.Samuel Butler
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When I want a peerage I shall buy one like an honest man.Lord Northcliffe
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It runs in the blood like wooden legs.Cheshire Saying
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Noble fathers have noble children.Euripides
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A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.Matthew
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He's a chip o' th' old block.William Rowley
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Clever father clever daughter clever mother clever son.Russian Proverb