Best Origins Lines
211 Origins quotes by 188 unique authors
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
— Karl Jaspers
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because…
— Walter Kaufmann
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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
— Michael Korda
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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
— Alfred Korzybski
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
— Youssou N'Dour
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We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.
— Freida Pinto
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The…
— Pat Robertson
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I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
— Martin Scorsese
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Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from…
— Saul Williams
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of…
— E. O. Wilson
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It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation;…
— Thomas Mann
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Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable…
— Albert Einstein
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Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have…
— Thomas Paine
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization…
— Edward Abbey
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He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So…
— Cormac McCarthy
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in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made…
— Hannah Arendt
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Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
— Jose Saramago
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America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or…
— Jean Baudrillard
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As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended…
— Duke of Wellington
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Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding…
— Loren Eiseley
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For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he…
— Cormac McCarthy
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She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
— Tom Robbins
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