J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!"
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Heirs
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Steve Saint
Author, Speaker
"Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs."
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution."
Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science."
Princess Margaret
Royalty
"I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive."
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"Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior."
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"If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy."
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"Without the proper care, there's no beauty. Without beauty, there's no boyfriend."
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"Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action."
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"They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property."
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"My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir."
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"Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth"
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"You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life then you can possibly imagine."
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"Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first."
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"Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair."
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"The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir."
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"We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years."
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"We are the heirs of the ages"
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"I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar."
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"The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware."
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"It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life -- without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being."
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"I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]"
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"Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir."
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