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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.
Monaco has a vocation to embrace other cultures. Should this be forgotten, the European and American origins of my family are there to remind us.
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.
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.
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.
In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.
I was not born in Telangana but my origins are in Telangana. My parents Varalaxmi and Srinivas Prasad hailed from Ramannagudem.
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.
Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.
Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.
I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.
I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.
Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
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.
I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.
It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.
In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.
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.
The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.
The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look.
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
It's difficult for me to imagine a circumstance in which you're disguising your origins in which someone doesn't get hurt.
The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.
Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.
For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now.
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.
'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted person.
Gene editing will be used to alter DNA to erase the origins of a range of debilitating inherited disorders.
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.
Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
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.
The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.
The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?
I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can't be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.
The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth.
Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take note of who hides their origins and who shows them off.
The so-called geologic ages are essentially synonymous with the evolutionary theory of origins. The latter is the anti-God conspiracy of Satan himself.
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.
