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Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world — Jane Caputi

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle. — Shulamith Firestone

He is a foreigner, he is from nowhere, from everywhere, citizen of the world, cosmopolitan. Do not send him back to his origins. — Julia Kristeva

It is crucial for us to understand the origins of our low self-esteem before we can transcend it. — Kevin Solomons

Every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18) — Alexander McCall Smith

This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins. — Daniel Smith

Good science fiction has its roots in good science. — Dan Brown

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. — Cormac McCarthy

Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived. — Umberto Eco

Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed. — Richard Bandler

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption. — Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution. — Richard Dawkins

The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life. — Paul McEuen

Keep her origins a mystery. — Robert B. Parker

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features. — Freida Pinto

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins. — Assia Djebar

And rumors, well, they're strange creatures with a will of their own: the more colorful they grow, the more their true origins fade. By — Rafik Schami

After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions. — Trevor Dunn

Many people nowadays have surnames that reveal their ancestors' fairy origins. Otherlander and Fairchild are two. — Susanna Clarke

Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten. — Barbara Johnson

How would one tell a story about happiness? One can only tell of the origins of happiness and its destruction. — Andre Gide

The importance of awakening to our evolutionary origins is paramount because irrational ideas about "who we are" fuel our sense of separateness — Christopher Zzenn Loren

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths. — Antony Beevor

We are all creatures of the stars. — Doris Lessing

He had been ploughing his way through the early volumes, discovering the origins of Lazenby's twin obsessions: sex and eternal life. — Jonathan Aycliffe

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

From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom. — Ryan Holmes

...a woman without love for her origins is lost. — Elena Ferrante

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins. — Jodi Picoult

I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough. — Erin O'Connor

No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers. — Peter Kay

Children's minds are the origins of revolutions.'-Dalia Qutob — Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists . — John Maynard Keynes

All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom, or is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it? — J. Aleksandr Wootton

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film. — Martin Scorsese

The origins of great companies inevitably start with the ideas and enterprise of great men. — Bill Scott

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. — Edgar Allan Poe

What's my problem? I have so many, but violent tendencies and probable demonic origins are the ones that should concern you. — Laini Taylor

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first. — Wojciech Jaruzelski

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. — Timothy Noah

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins. — Thomas McGuane

Originality is going back to origins. — Antonio Gaudi

My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins. — Youssou N'Dour

In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about. — Ronald Reagan

The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament. — Robert Jeffress

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time. — Erin McKean

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. — Freya Stark

Somewhere in the background of magnificence lurks the kitchen staff. But a magnificent person only forgets about his origins, never his brunch. — Bauvard

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. — Alfred Korzybski

In this dismissal of origins we see the new pragmatism. — Sherry Turkle

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive. — Arthur Erickson

Pursued by our origins ... we all are. — Emile M. Cioran

We laughed the laugh of women untethered, finally, from their origins. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Every misogynist came out of a woman. — Mat Johnson

If you're looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel. — Martin Scorsese

Origins...They don't explain us, you know. They never do. Each of us is our own piece of work. — David Vann

Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup -and our destiny. — Myles Munroe

For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging. — Sue Monk Kidd

The real origins of money are to be found in crime and recompense, war and slavery, honor, debt, and redemption. That, — David Graeber

Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings. — Gregory Benford

Power has always been held by those who manage to controls the origins of life by controlling woman's bodies. — Jenny Nordberg

The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago. — Tariq Ali

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. — Andre Bazin

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. — David Christian

Of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am. — Ryan Giggs

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. — Daniel Barenboim

Left to themselves, people remake their origin stories every few generations to suit present circumstances. — Jo Walton

Be like the koru; as you go forward into the forever-changing future, always remain faithful to the point of origin. — Lauren Lola

To solve a conflict, you should inquire about their origins — Miguel El Portugues

Your destiny, forever kindred,
United you in life and death
Despite the origins that hindered
You from your loving in good faith. — Tatyana K. Varenko

I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop. — Bruce Oldfield

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. — Jean-Philippe Rameau

Light may be shed on man and his origins. — Charles Darwin

I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life. — Ellen Stofan

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins. — Hendrik Poinar

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins. — Jose Saramago

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field. — Albert Einstein

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers. — Franz Grillparzer

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old. — Chris Crutcher

In other words, the question of the historical Adam has more to do with sin's origins than with material human origins. These — John H. Walton

The origins of Judeo-Christianity are to be found in Egypt. — Michael Tsarion

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future. — Jack Williamson

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. — Malcolm X

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. — Neil Postman

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. — Leonardo Da Vinci

When you trace a particle back to its origins, you find that it's nothing but pure energy. All of us come from this energy field. — Wayne Dyer

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. — Antonio Gaudi

Lamen though of modest origins was a thoughtful young man who spoke Veretian very well, even if his knowledge of cloth was lacking. 'I — C.S. Pacat

I am not anybody's, Will. My heart is my own. — Cassandra Clare

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown. — Francis Parker Yockey

By now it's got as much in common with its origins as a humpback whale would have with the sperm cells from a therapsid lizard. Still, — Peter Watts

For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew? — John Milton

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own. — Karl Jaspers