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

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Source : James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.1, BoD – Books on Demand

James Nasmyth

#Race Quotes #Influence Quotes #Born Quotes

“Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.”
“The introduction is the first and best chance to win the attention of people who otherwise would not care. The first thing you have to do is make people believe that what you have to say is relevant and important.”
“The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.”
“The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

Source : Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.
“Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.”
“There is no substitute for intuition.”
“We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us.”

Source : Bernal Diaz del Castillo (2003). “The Conquest of New Spain”, p.159, Penguin UK

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