| "The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something." »Andy Anderson |
| "Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin." »Michael Pupin |
| "Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge." »Dante Alighieri |
| "It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others." »Cornelius Tacitus |
| "We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." »Charles Darwin |
| "The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin." »George Jellinek |
| "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." »Eric Hoffer |
| "We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge." »George Will |
| "I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad.N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end." »Psalms 11996 |
| "The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil." »Georges Bataille |
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