Famous quotes with Handed down

• The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

  Ruth Benedict
• How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

  Olympia Brown
• Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

  Cecil B. DeMille
• We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

  Asa Gray
• We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

  Barbara Jordan

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Middle Class Populations

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