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For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.
The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
Most superheroes, when you look at origin stories - before they invent their costume, they just go with what's around.
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.
I'm a big fan of when you model a character as someone with a biological origin, doing deep dives and a lot of research.
Tel Aviv was established in 1909 by a group of secular Jewish families; Judaism's origin story is about 2,000 years older.
I grew up very inspired by 'Superman One' and by kind of the promise of the genre of what a superhero origin story can do.
No one's of Pakistani origin in any British show. That's why every actor of color is here working in the States. It's true.
The difference between Superman and Wonder Woman is not strength or power level or origin but the fact that she is a woman.
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.
Blue Origin's successful capsule escape demonstration represents a material step toward a fully re-usable sub-orbital vehicle.
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting India's diversity.
My surname, Buttigieg (Boot-edge-edge), is very common in my father's country of origin, the tiny island of Malta, and nowhere else.
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression.
I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life in the universe.
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.
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
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.
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.
As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what we are taught.
While I don't face the same barriers as so many people in our country, I have seen love that transcends borders, race, and country of origin.
My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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?
Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.
For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.
The smuggling and distribution of misbranded drugs and medical devices of uncertain foreign origin has the potential for serious harm to patients.
Nagini should be played by an Asian. Scriptwriter J.K. Rowling probably searched for an Asian actress because she researched the origin of Nagini.
Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.
Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
Questioning the origin of music is like asking why the breeze is soothing, why you shiver in exhilaration when the spray from the waterfall hits you.
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.
Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.
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.
Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.