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Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Giorgio Vasari

Nature, God, Art

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

Humor, Heart, Once

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.
George Saintsbury

Mind, Care, Rather

Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.
George G. Simpson

Important, Wrong, Universe

Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.
George G. Simpson

Rather, Fact, Against

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
Bess Truman

Against, Talent, Action

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.
Richard Owen

Nature, Study, Scientific

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.
Alexander Mackenzie

Life, Political, May

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

Hope, True, Whatever

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

Life, Human, Generation

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
Victor Francis Hess

Made, Place, Here

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
Carlos Slim

Mother, Father, Same

Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.
Belle Boyd

Enemy, Important, Within

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.
John Newton

End, Evil, Themselves

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
John Fiske

Spirit, Opinions, Correct

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
Chen Ning Yang

Work, Science, Human

We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
Arthur E. Waite

Seen, Evidence, Cards

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
Adam Ferguson

Men, Society, Philosophy

We are African in origin and American in birth.
Timothy Thomas Fortune

American, Birth, African

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
Felix Bloch

Time, Before, Able

Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.
Flavius Josephus

Become, Again, Troubles

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.
Adam Sedgwick

Philosophy, Place, Moral

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
Jean Philippe Rameau

Speech, Common, Singing

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
John Ambrose Fleming

Theory, Evolution, Explain

I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism.
Charles Anthon

Full, Statement, Respecting

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.
Heinrich Himmler

Men, Wanted, Making

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