Heritage Quotes - Page 3

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

Georg Simmel

Being Yourself, Inspire, Historical

Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

Caleb Cushing

Kings, Europe, Law

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A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Creativity, Elements, Rehabilitation

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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.

Calvin Coolidge

Father, Science, Independence

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In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or confiscated. Only in Great Britain did it prove possible to float the idea that aristocratic property was in some magical and strictly intangible way the people's property also. The fact that hundreds of thousands of men and women today are willing to accept that privately owned country houses and their contents are part of Britain's national heritage is one more proof of how successfully the British elite reconstructed its cultural image in an age of revolution.

Linda Colley

Country, Men, Ideas

Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.177, Yale University Press

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It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.

Stokely Carmichael

Country, Organization, People

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By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Roger Ebert

Movie, Moving, College

Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

Jacques Derrida

Political, Intellectual, Roles

Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.87, Stanford University Press

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As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.

Debbie Stabenow

Drinking, Responsibility, Lakes

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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

Hard Work, Years, Inheritance

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But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.

James Henry Breasted

Lonely, Father, Land

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We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides to scholars of many tongues and many heritages. In the long run, that spirit will inevitably have a constructive effect on the benefits which man can derive from knowledge of himself and his environment.

Stanford Moore

Running, Knowledge, Science

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Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

Robert Browning

Age, Youth, Aging

Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.147, Wildside Press LLC

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To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

Henrietta Szold

Lying, Views, Allegiance

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Jewish people have put the interests of race over the interests of the American people.... Jews are filled with more hatred and rage for our race, for our heritage, for our blood than perhaps you can imagine.

David Duke

Race, Blood, Ku Klux Klan

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

Death, Men, Hymns

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Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

Betty Shabazz

Needs, Heirs, Tradition

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Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

Stephen Jay Gould

Teacher, Teaching, Science

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The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

Eliot Engel

Country, Numbers, Needs

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Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.

Margaret Oliphant

Sweet, Children, Blessed

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Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

Joel Osteen

Inspirational, Happy, Future

Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

Gustav Stresemann

Italian, Would Be, Common

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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Allan Bloom

Learning, Cynical, Political

Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Abdus Salam

East, West, Physics

Abdus Salam, H. R. Dalafi (1994). “Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries”, p.16, World Scientific

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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Abdus Salam

Common, Creation, Mankind

Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.10, World Scientific

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