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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri

Knowledge You Made Live Consider Virtue Follow Were Your Origins

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge Our Perceptions Origins

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round. Umberto Eco

Life Attitude Death God Religion Nothing Other Way About Opinion Answer Personal Human In My Opinion Human Beings After Happens Ask Produces Who Many Beings Round Fundamental Origins

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. Michael Korda

Success Achievement Final Distance Easy Between Always Been Measure Origins

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. For most of its history, the practice was not separated from other aspects of human activity. Jon Kabat-Zinn

History Mind Practice Medicine Other Back Sides Way Most Same Goes Human Human Activity Different Body Separated Aspects Notion Different Sides Activity Origins Actually Coin

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. Queen Elizabeth II

God Strength Me History Old Will Living Aim Thousand Thousand Years Spirit More Only Splendid Empire Majesty New Years Traditions Than Behind Different Commonwealth Races Lands United Origins Societies

When I read the news that Wonder Woman was going to be resurrected for a blockbuster movie in 2016, 'Batman vs. Superman', it made me excited - and anxious. Would the producers give her a role as fierce as her origins - and maybe some shoulder straps - or would she just be cartoon eye candy? Amanda Foreman

News Me Woman Made Superman Just Be Batman Eye Would Cartoon Some Give Excited She Read Blockbuster Wonder Wonder Woman Role Anxious Going Maybe Just Candy Movie Fierce Producers Shoulder Origins Her

In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which is heartier praise than Cleveland usually gets from Europeans. Anand Giridharadas

Beautiful People Skin Worldly States Ancient Indian Faced More Cleveland Praise Than Gets Which Europe Europeans United Origins United States

I am not saying do not give people equal health services but do not pretend that giving more money for diabetes or chronic diseases means you are going to deal with the origins of health inequalities. Andrew Lansley

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. Antoni Tapies

Art Great World Losing Great Deal Secular Sense Painting Think Our Our World Religious More More And More Return Deal Loss Modern Done Getting Modern Art Which Eternal Customs Meaning Origins Images Damage

It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it. Dave Itzkoff

Art You People Black Argument Community Other Way Slippery Slippery Slope Hop Slope Only Make Hip Hip-Hop Art Form Person Want Endure Form Certainly Origins

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. Diane Wakoski

Sometimes Gender Out Poetry Myths Written Geographic Context Reference Cultural American Often Race Ethnic Landscape Origins

When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let's not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the cradle, the crucible that created us as Homo sapiens. Donald Johanson

Today Humanity Think Crucible Look Because Cradle Just Africa Us Created Sapiens Europe Origins Homo Homo Sapiens

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War. Douglas Hurd

Today War Rights World First Merits Wrongs Napoleon First World First World War Certainly Even Agreement Origins Consensus World War

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 the flowering plants 150 million years ago. E. O. Wilson

Rain Plants Broad Circumstance Tropical Over Since Parts Continents Years Years Ago Historical Forests Interest Origins Million Million Years Flowering

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent. Edmund White

Me Age Book Writing Nothing Everybody Back See Record Totally About Sacred Had Idea Goes Maybe Literature Holy Holy Book Should Transparent Serious Origins Early Early Age

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. Edward Hirsch

Music Song Word Tribal Other Distinguished One Word Poetry Remembers Always Still Cultures Just Where Literacy Just One Them Many Origins

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