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211 Origins quotes by 188 unique authors
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In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.
— Simon Schama
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Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.
— Ronald Reagan
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Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school…
— Jacob Bronowski
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By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
— Erin McKean
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I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the…
— Reza Aslan
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From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.
— Ryan Holmes
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It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their…
— F. Sionil Jose
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Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young…
— Ken Ham
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Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.
— Richard Dawkins
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My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality…
— Gad Elmaleh
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The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the origins of medicine.…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life on Earth. What…
— Martin Rees
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Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up…
— Timothy Noah
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The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies…
— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
— Jack Williamson
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Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working…
— Harry Bridges
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But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep…
— Rudolf Otto
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It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of…
— Walter Kaufmann
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The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five…
— Robert Kirkman
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In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the…
— Hideki Tojo
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When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new…
— Donald Johanson
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Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.
— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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