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"We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."
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"I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world."
"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."
"Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him."
"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam."
"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."
"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."
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"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
"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."
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
"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."
"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."
"Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me."
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