Origin Quotes

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Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal… — John Searle
The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any… — Potter Stewart
The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They lived… — Ludwig von Mises
What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The northern hemisphere, the developed area of the world, the 20% who possess 80% of the world's resources,… — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history. — Pope John Paul II
If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for… — Sigmund Freud
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for… — Georges Bataille
There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and… — James Madison
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of… — Charles Edward Merriam
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . .… — Joseph Story
Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished… — John Playfair
My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativity that… — Billy Gibbons
Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently controlled vehicles whose… — Stanton T. Friedman
There is no doubt in my mind, after 37 years of study and investigation that the evidence is overwhelming that planet Earth is being visited… — Stanton T. Friedman
Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with… — George C. Marshall
As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying… — James Madison
The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions… — Stephen Batchelor
Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it… — Richard Dawkins

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