Origin Quotes

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For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our… — Giancarlo Esposito
James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these… — Michael Jackson
It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty,… — Stephen Root
Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes… — Michael Denton
The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of CompiÃ¨gne but the figure of the young Blanche.… — Gertrud von Le Fort
The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously… — L. Fletcher Prouty
The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world. — Habib Umar bin Hafiz
Man is really not freeing many aspects. He is dependent on his social circumstances, but he is free in his thinking, and here is the… — Joseph Beuys
Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin. — Harry S. Truman
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here… — Thomas Paine
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas… — Thomas Paine
The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact, a broadening process of incarnation.… — Carl Jung
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul. — Carl Jung
The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois… — Max Horkheimer
Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning… — Hannah Arendt
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia… — Jacques Derrida
I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which… — Lester Horton
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which… — Giorgio Vasari
Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century… — Wesley Clark

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