Best Origins Quotations
211 Origins quotes by 188 unique authors
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The most important thing for me when I wrote [Origins] was that at the end even if Morrigan loved the player, she had this thing…
— David Gaider
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We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we…
— Chris Rock
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Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.
— Jane Roberts
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal…
— Allen Tate
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In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he…
— Georg Simmel
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In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression…
— Carol Gilligan
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But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to…
— Neil Postman
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Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but…
— Bruno Walter
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There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew…
— Henry Hazlitt
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When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is…
— David Richo
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Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the…
— Lewis Mumford
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I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford…
— Bruce Oldfield
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I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the…
— Gillian Welch
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Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions…
— Thomas Young
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We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.
— John D. Barrow
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The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
— Andre Bazin
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Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of…
— William A. Dembski
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I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It…
— Clare Bowen
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Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.
— Assia Djebar
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The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.
— Richard Dawkins
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Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois…
— Jean-Francois Cope
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I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown…
— Rachel Kushner
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To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can…
— J. B. Jackson
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