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"We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."
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"Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him."
"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."
"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam."
"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."
"Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him."
"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."
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"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."
"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."
"Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me."
"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."
"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."
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
"Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk."
"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."
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