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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey

History, Knowledge, Past

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu

Great, Small, Difficult

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung

Creative, Works, Fantasy

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
Ambrose Bierce

God, Made, Fact

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell

Art, Others, Ethics

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin

Seems, However, Noble

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth

Poetry, Powerful, Feelings

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann

Education, Great, Men

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
Martin Buber

Life, Mean, Thought

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
Richard Dawkins

Give, Pretty, Universe

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
E. O. Wilson

Time, Two, Theory

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
E. O. Wilson

Mind, Human, Between

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
Thomas Aquinas

True, Said, Spirit

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil

Nothing, Idea, Progress

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
Robert Collier

Money, Mind, Ideas

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
Eric Hoffer

Play, Played, Role

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow

Life, Faith, Hope

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese

Sense, Ambition, Sins

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
Emma Thompson

Live, Gay, Lost

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
Cat Stevens

Love, Words, Play

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
Ivan Pavlov

Try, Become, Facts

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

Religion, Nothing, Hatred

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Time, Become, Works

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
Lord Acton

Nature, Nothing, Force

I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen.
Rick Perry

Happen, Country, Another

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Woman, Person

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

Positive, History, State

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson

Music, Jazz, Gospel

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
Paracelsus

Sense, Cure, Physician

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
Mortimer Adler

Love, View, Instinct

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