“ Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Rome: the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump. ”
- Willem Dafoe- Copy
- 279
“ Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ What boots it on the lineal tree to trace Through many a branch the founders of our race. ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 833
“ What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians? ”
- Robert Orben- Copy
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“ I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. ”
- Andre Agassi- Copy
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“ The spirit of simplicity is not an inherited gift, but the result of a laborious conquest. ”
- Charles Wagner- Copy
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“ I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts. ”
- Martin Ritt- Copy
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“ I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football. ”
- David Walliams- Copy
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“ Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. ”
- R. D. Laing- Copy
- 248
“ All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet. ”
- Joshua Nkomo- Copy
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“ Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country. ”
- Penelope Lively- Copy
- 539
“ I'd have to say that we could do a lot better than Harvey Pitt in that position today,... huge disappointment. ”
- Tom Daschle- Copy
- 3.6K
“ We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 3.6K
“ My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months. ”
- Ginger Rogers- Copy
- 1.3K
“ It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains. ”
- Elizabeth II- Copy
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“ And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature. ”
- St. John Chrysostom- Copy
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“ The stately homes of England! / How beautiful they stand, / Amidst their tall ancestral trees, / O'er all the pleasant land! ”
- Felicia Hemans- Copy
- 3K
“ The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand. ”
- Noel Coward- Copy
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“ Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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