Their Origins Quotes
23 quotes by 23 authors
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The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences…
— Ray Lankester
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If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to…
— Martin Rees
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The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter…
— Kevin Rudd
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Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together…
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins,…
— Ted Nelson
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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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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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Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.
— Richard Bandler
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must…
— Terry Pratchett
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The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon…
— Cormac McCarthy
Who Wrote These Their Origins Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 23 Their Origins Quotes as follows: