#inheritance

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

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#equal #free #free press #grant #i

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#almost #behavior #courtship #females #inheritance

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. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#basis #bird #genetic #inheritance #natural

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

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

— Georg Brandes

#errors #humanity #inheritance #leaves #stream

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#got #hold #honor #inheritance #know

In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#depend #disposal #earth #future #inheritance

Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#him #inheritance #know #man #never

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#divided #entirely #him #inheritance #know