Origin Quotes

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Originality is a return to the origin. — Antonio Gaudi
The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of â€˜adaptation through maladaptationâ€™ which is… — Anthony Storr
It the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color… — Sydney J. Harris
I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in danger of being swamped by… — Pauline Hanson
To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin. — Morihei Ueshiba
I find that God by any name can be reduced to this sense of the eternal Presence. It defines being, and I see it as… — Elizabeth Clare Prophet
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of… — Charles Lyell
According to leading researchers, however, only about 10 to 15 percent of cancers are genetic in origin; the rest are caused by a combination of… — Dharma Singh Khalsa
All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would… — Harold Jeffreys
New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin. — Joseph O'Neill
No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't be another terrorist… — Walter E. Williams
You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to do is to… — Cleveland Amory
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time...… — Julia Robinson
ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would… — Ambrose Bierce
'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts...… — Socrates
... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the… — David Hume
No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind. — John B. Watson
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory… — Gaston Bachelard
The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles. — Kent V. Flannery

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