#inheritance

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#cumulative #democracy #education #history #inheritance

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

— Karel Capek

#cultural #dignity #england #find #freedom

Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#disposition #first #importance #individuals #inheritances

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#already #been #death #estate #estate tax

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ↗

— Alan Watts

#believe #born #defend #estates #heirs

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

— Walter Gilbert

#evolution #human #inheritance #our #place

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

#back #dead #fame #great #inheritance

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#any #attempt #character #deny #french

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

— Georg Brandes

#errors #humanity #inheritance #leaves #stream

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

— Karl Kraus

#aside #cannot #exhaust #experiences #inheritance