“I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.”

— Bill Watterson

Source: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

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Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach―ブリーチ― 49 [Burīchi 49]

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Source: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

“You cannot take the world through inheritance and boasting, you can take it only by wielding the sword in battle.”

Iltutmish (1210–1236) Sultan of Mamluk Sultanate

Iltumish. Isami, II, 221. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 4

“You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.”

Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) British comedian

The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, October 1998 (rebroadcast on BBC 7, 6 June 2006)

““You can hardly blame them.”
“Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.””

Alastair Reynolds book Revelation Space

Source: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 3 (p. 67).

“A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.”

David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas

The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing, Monday, 13th January —, p. 528
Cloud Atlas (2004)

“Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can;
No need for greed or hunger –
A brotherhood of man;
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one;
I hope some day you will join us,
And the world will live as one.
"Imagine" (song)
Lyrics, Imagine (1971 album)

“It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P. S.: I never inherited any money.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 10.

“The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”

Charles Kingsley book The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

Source: The Water-Babies

“I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.”

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