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211 Origins quotes by 188 unique authors
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Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's…
— David Levering Lewis
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The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here…
— Ellen Ullman
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Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has…
— Dean H. Kenyon
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Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share…
— Hans Arp
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Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the…
— Marc Chagall
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After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.
— Trevor Dunn
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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources…
— Rachel Carson
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We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects itself.…
— Ernest Klein
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In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead…
— Rachel Carson
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Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all…
— Jill Tarter
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You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a…
— Georg Baselitz
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I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough.
— Erin O'Connor
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Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and…
— Richard Armour
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A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would…
— Saul Bellow
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I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for the…
— Zack Snyder
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Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of…
— Matthew Fox
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I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.
— Ryan Giggs
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I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time…
— Mitch Daniels
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I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's…
— Celine Dion
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Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after…
— Umberto Eco
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which…
— Arthur Erickson
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'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and…
— Stephen Hunter
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