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A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious. — H.L. Mencken

Prayer is the condition by which all foes are to be overcome and all the inheritance is to be possessed. — E. M. Bounds

Inheritance trumps inamorata. — Sarah MacLean

Implementation inheritance is a very good example for adding much conceptual complexity without giving us the full power of the ideas it builds upon. — Anonymous

Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence. — Charles Simmons

wisdom." I suspect you're upset about the inheritance Daddy left me. But — Rachel Hauck

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013. — Bill Maher

The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius. — Beatrice Webb

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'You know why' - Murtagh — Christopher Paolini

14 The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us — Anonymous

According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father. — Sabine Baring-Gould

Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal — Phil Harding

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi

Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think. — Suze Orman

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold. — Jacob Bronowski

The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation. — Marshall McLuhan

Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. — John Ruskin

How dear hath this inheritance of truth cost some Christians? How little hath it cost us? — Terry D. Slachter

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. — William Hazlitt

My inheritance how lordly wide and fair;
Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Two distinct elements are included under the term "inheritance" - the transmission, and the development of characters; — Charles Darwin

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. — Christopher Paolini

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. — Karl Kraus

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will. — Armand Hammer

Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters. — Christopher Paolini

They inherited it all. The curse of privilege. Janitors for the ambitions of the dead. — Colum McCann

For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen. — Rene Char

Favor composition over inheritance, — Joshua Bloch

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance. — Edward Hirsch

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck. — Thomas Piketty

Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall? — Ralph Vaughan Williams

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it. — Charles Caleb Colton

An inheritance is what you leave with people. A legacy is what you leave in them. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am a subject,
And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me,
And therefore personally I lay my claim
To my inheritance of free descent. — William Shakespeare

We must save ourselves from ourselves before the inheritance of humanity is ash. — Pierce Brown

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance. — Kate Zambreno

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance. — John Eccles

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. — Isadora Duncan

The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children. — Marvin Sapp

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. — Harold Bloom

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction. — Austin O'Malley

You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad. — Brian Kilmeade

We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance. — Matt Redman

He breathed a power brewed from masculinity and intelligence, not from an accident of inheritance. — Eloisa James

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England. — Karel Capek

Where there's a will, there's a way. Yeah, better hope you get left tons of money. — Kirn Hans

No ideology can protect a son from the unwelcome inheritance of his father's ambitions. — Elizabeth Strout

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — Edwin Powell Hubble

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather. — Henry David Thoreau

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. — Edmund Burke

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage. — Voltaire

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose. — Elinor Wylie

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. — Herman Wouk

I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy — Daymond John

You inherit your environment just as much as your genes. — Johnny Rich

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants. — Amos Bronson Alcott

When your problem is one of needing numerous specializations of a stable, common abstraction, inheritance can be an extremely low-cost solution. — Anonymous

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation. — William J. Clinton

Duplicity was not the sole province of the capital, Bas knew, but the honest inheritance of the entire species. — Daniel Polansky

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul. — Frank Herbert

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam. — Olin Miller

Hank had left me his doomed army, and he'd left Marcie his inheritance. Unfair didn't begin to cover it. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. — Henry David Thoreau

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S. — Emily Mortimer

We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on. — Louis Riel

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs. — Anna Julia Cooper

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave. — Mark Batterson

Wisdom is better than an inheritance;
knowledge is worth more than gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it's never done. — Ernest Hemingway,

They were touched by the same inheritance. — Zadie Smith

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest. — Annalee Newitz

Service is no Inheritance. — George Herbert

If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance. — James Plunkett

A lot of what you presume to be evidence of your intelligence is just part of a vast cultural inheritance. — David McRaney

JavaScript derives its syntax from Java, its first-class functions from Scheme, and its prototype-based inheritance from Self. But — David Flanagan

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed. — Patrick Henry

Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. — Christopher Paolini

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us. — Francis Of Assisi

And through it all, this destiny was before me," he said; "this vast inheritance of which I did not dream. — H.G.Wells

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. — Georg Brandes

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. — Walter Gilbert

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts. — Sebastian Pinera

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat. — Alexander Pope

His girl was on the tentacles of expectation about it.
(From Mr. Humphreys and his Inheritance) — M.R. James

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance. — Jonathan Edwards

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero. — Sam Harris

Love is the human family's most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance. — Michael Jackson

To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture. — John Eccles

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. — Christopher Paolini

If you wish to remain above the forces here, do not let anyone's approval dictate your actions — Christopher Paolini

The Quran gave women rights of inheritance and divorce centuries before Western women were accorded such status. The — Karen Armstrong

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it. — Edward Dunlop

It is part of our inheritance to be, above all, secure and confident in the will of God. — Graham Cooke

To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance. — David Whyte

I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy. — Christopher Paolini