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

Knowledge History Culture People Past Tree Like Without Past History Roots Origin

We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants. Hillary Clinton

Home People Country Backgrounds All Nations Immigrants All Races All Religions Religions Make Built America Nations Where Races Languages Origin

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?' Ravi Zacharias

Life You Down Every Think Thinking Destiny Morality Wrong Headed Come Know How Am Questions Person Did Die Being Where After Them Meaning Ask Asked Really Boil Origin Fundamental Fundamental Questions Right Four Brings

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

Feelings Poetry Emotion Takes Powerful Spontaneous Overflow Tranquility Origin

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 Me Man Conflict Thought Three Action Say Between Principle Principles Being Mean Origin Speech

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

Try Become Penetrate Recorder Mystery Facts Mere Origin

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

Me Man Frame Indelible Must Seems Bears Noble Qualities Still However His Acknowledge Stamp Bodily Lowly Origin

The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage. Debbie Ford

Good Dark Fear Denial Dark Side Every Good Intentions Side Our Out Shame Drives Self-Destruction Unthinkable Referred Often Psyche Human Intentions Us Act Human Psyche Origin Acts

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

Great Great Things Difficult Easy Small Which Origin Things Difficult Things

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.' Said Nursi

Work Saying Me You Corruption Long First Live Others Ease Sayings Hunger Eat Morals Source Spur Die Revolutions Just Full Origin Base Suffer Hardship Second Two

I volunteered at Ayuda, in the office, on a regular basis, and I did everything from fingerprinting and interviewing persons of Hispanic origin who entered the country without inspection and who were seeking work-authorization permits. Thomas Hardiman

Country Interviewing Everything Entered Seeking Inspection Volunteered Without Permits Were Hispanic Office Did Persons Regular Regular Basis Who Origin Basis

To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. Gilbert Newton Lewis

Life Music Every Increase Inquire Machinery Complexity Seeking Properties Leads New Like Arrangement Often Substance Form Incalculable Electrical Origin

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. Jean Rostand

Man Become Destined He Equal Origin Species

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things. Lao Tzu

Mother Earth All Things Name Named Heaven Eternal Origin Things

I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people. Marine Le Pen

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 Man Woman Other Way Find Sexual Rather More Liking Than Person Intelligible Interest Much Choice Origin

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe. Nick Cave

You Song Somewhere Nothing Universe Else Something Somewhere Else Absolutely Dividing Absolutely Nothing Songwriting Between Like Within Line Where Happens Explain Then Origin Element Suddenly

The whole of ancient astrology owed its origin to conversation with the cosmic intelligences. But by the time of the first centuries after the rise of Christianity, ancient astrology - that is to say, conversation with cosmic intelligences - was a thing of the past. Rudolf Steiner

Time Conversation First Past Christianity Say Astrology Ancient Cosmic Rise Owed After Centuries Origin Whole Thing By The Time

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves. Sandra Cisneros

Word White Latino Ourselves Status Status Quo Accepted Always Hispanic Person Quo Wants Used English Who Origin

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

Destination Progress Poison Nothing Other Idea Contrary Than Anything Origin

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin. Vladimir Putin

Sides Extremist Suppress Any Regardless Origin Actions Necessary

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

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