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Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?”
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The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
bernard bailyn— Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 273
All our anxieties relate to time. ... The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.
fulton j. sheen— "Sanctifying the Moment" in Lift Up Your Heart (1950)
His thoughts, delivered to me From the white coverlet and pillow, I see now, were inheritances Delicate riders of the storm.
hart crane— Praise for an Urn (l. 5-8). In The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair (1988)
Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
— Jean Anouilh, as cited in: Stuart Allan (2010) News Culture. p. 1
