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"We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."
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"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam."
"The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light."
"Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him."
"I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world."
"Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection."
"There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation."
"Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him."
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"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."
"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."
"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."
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