Quotes with origin

Quotes 21 till 40 of 42.

  • Camille Paglia Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Paul De Man Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Avi Arad Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Bill Nye Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Georges Bataille The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Cat Stevens The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William Hazlitt The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • B. W. Powe The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
    Towards A Canada of Light A Prayer For Canada, p. 13
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Adam Sedgwick The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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  • Aberjhani The ultimate test on the way to establishing an ideal civilization encouraging ideal human behavior was to look bravely beyond gender, color, ethnic origin, religious difference, and class distinctions to discover and honor the value of each unique individual.
    Aberjhani
    American historian, columnist and novelist (1957 - )
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Burt Rutan Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Arthur Peacocke We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Arthur E. Waite We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Angelo Scola We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.
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  • Henry David Thoreau What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carl Sagan Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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