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Letter "O" » origins
«Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.»
«Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.»
«In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference»
Author: Rachel Carson
| About:
Water
| Keywords:
An Age, origins, resources, survival, The Victim, victim
«The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one.»
Author: Ben Okri
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Beginning
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beginnings, dissolve, dissolving, endings, intuit, mysterious, numinous, origins, resonate, resonates
«Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge»
«All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
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Beginning,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
origins, perceptions
«From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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consummate, consummated, consummating, dazzle, dazzled, dazzles, dazzling, descendant, descendants, from time to time, origins, outstanding, shed, shed light on, stupendous, The Descendants, vanished
«In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about. (August 17, 1992)»
«Without capital, the trader looks around in all four directions. He does not understand his own origins; the merchandise remains within the door of his own house. Without this commodity, there is great pain.»
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