Best Origins Sayings
211 Origins quotes by 188 unique authors
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Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural…
— Donna J. Haraway
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There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of…
— Douglas Hurd
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The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.
— Unknown Author
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Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup -and our destiny.
— Myles Munroe
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The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying:…
— Katharine Hamnett
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Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown
— Francis Parker Yockey
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Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
— James S. Coleman
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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and…
— Denis de Rougemont
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One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the…
— Bruce Hoffman
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The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret…
— Mary Ruefle
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Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.
— Richard Bandler
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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender…
— Diane Wakoski
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No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of…
— Mary Karr
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I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless…
— Jack Kerouac
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Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface…
— James A. Baldwin
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The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an…
— Jose Emilio Pacheco
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Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.
— Neil Postman
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Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each…
— Albert Schweitzer
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I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in…
— Graham Hancock
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Today too, as at her origins, the Church... cries out:“Veni, Sancte Spiritus! Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them…
— Pope Francis
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In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.
— Ronald Reagan
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The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity…
— Keith Haring
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To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he…
— John Amos
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I don't have any problem understanding why people flunk out of college or quit their jobs or cheat on each other or break the law…
— Lidia Yuknavitch
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