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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. ↗

— Doris Day

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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ↗

— James Whistler

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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. ↗

— Paul Getty

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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. ↗

— Sam Levenson

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OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. ↗

— James Nasmyth

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I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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