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    origins


    1. "From these origins Sammy's gang evolved and was shunned even by the maturing old boys of the DMS


    2. ‘JJ was born here; he has no idea of his origins


    3. Parrot: If you hear this bird chattering, beware of a treacherous person in your circle; if a young woman dreams of a parrot, she should investigate the origins of her lover before marriage, or she will have a nasty surprise too late


    4. Alfred still had a hard time thinking that Alan would have deliberately severed that last possible link with his origins


    5. I asked a lot of questions and learned a lot about the origins of the dragons


    6. He had survived the party, but mainly because so many other things had happened that day, the whole town had found out about his origins and Desa had scared him nearly to death with a song that made him believe she had been controlling his mind with RNAcid for generations


    7. I'm a bit of a sci-fi fan so his YingolNeerie origins are interesting to me


    8. In spite of his otherworldly origins, Alan had the intellectual capacity to interest her, she wasn't sure about Yarin


    9. I know he's strange because of his origins and I know he's just a kid, but the fact that he's been loyal to me when no one else has in so long means a lot to me, it's not something I'm going to just casually toss aside


    10. No one had a problem with the origins of the Ogatu; just the part about the unrelenting hatred of the Scathers

    11. "She didn’t know her origins until she came here; the Eloi suspected I think


    12. As we traced back the origins of the individual trapped


    13. The cleaning takes all morning, partly because I keep stopping to drink some water … I’m feeling bloody minded and refuse to take painkillers for the headache I am convinced had its origins in that bottle of wine


    14. “I’ve traced the girl’s origins


    15. When I said it is ancient beyond fathoming, I mean its origins are lost in the mists of time just as the origins of language itself, and this diagram handed on from age to age remains our only clue


    16. Desa tied this in to the laboratory theory of human origins


    17. The whole story of his origins, what Earth was created for, why mankind developed science and why the Orthodox Christial Church picked 61 Cygni as the destination of their expedition found its purpose in that song


    18. He could give several places as origins with enough plausibility now, even for his most intimate lover


    19. "But you saw none before Alan found out about his origins


    20. proud of his origins and wants to attract the

    21. demon by telling us his origins


    22. Unlike her, he wasn’t fascinated with the world’s origins, either


    23. Though this one is of decidedly less friendly origins


    24. However, whilst most physicists agree on the origins of the universe, debate still rages concerning its ultimate fate


    25. All wealth had its origins in thought


    26. It comprises of the creation of heaven and Earth, the Flood and the origins of the Israelite nation and God’s covenant with them


    27. We have to consider that the information contained in the Bible also addresses our origins in the creation account in which it describes how God created everything and that it was a deliberate choice and action from God to perform his creative work


    28. They’re trying to source the origins of some diamonds while posing as bent jewellers interested in buying them“ Ray explained further


    29. I will, however, tell you of its origins


    30. Had the beast killed him or had it been Hollowcrest’s medical zealots from the dungeon? And why did Mitsy think they came from the same source? Amaranthe felt certain Hollowcrest was a traditionalist, not someone who would flirt with the unnatural, and Akstyr believed that creature of magical origins

    31. “Did you warn the soldiers about the creature’s origins?”


    32. The opponents of ―Wealth‖ oftentimes ignore its humbler origins by rejecting off-hand the many hardships that many financially successful individuals had to endure—hard work, taking calculated risks and self-sacrifice in order to acquire their fortune(s)


    33. essence of Bergamot, a small citrus fruit with its origins in China


    34. A blend of Lapsang Souchong and black teas with its origins in the caravan route


    35. They all understood, whatever their religious beliefs, including those who were not religious at all, for that matter, the inestimable value that religious principles imparted on the spiritual vitality of well-ordered society mindful of its eternal origins; and that true Wisdom was destined to achieve its loftiest expression(s) in the highest moral offices that properly instruct the Conscience of Men lest they fall prey to Tyranny or other capricious designs


    36. This is especially evident among those whose pecuniary origins are well below standard


    37. Response: A very serious one indeed! Although I am not opposed to this practice in principle, (its historical origins as they relate to proportional ethnic/racial representation have been well documented), even its most ardent detractors, however, must applaud the creative resourcefulness of those responsible for engineering such elaborate arrangements that have given rise to disproportionate (racial) representation rising well above of the national average


    38. Laws, in the absence of binding (principle) origins constitute a transitory, variable system of rules conditioned by current fashions without regard to (the) underlying (moral) assumptions that otherwise provide (customary) perspective to a well-ordered, (continuous) society


    39. This is why I put the asterisks next to the note about William’s origins: You see my father was adopted


    40. The only difference with my dad and your husband was that his parents were not as loving and my dad always craved to find out more about his origins

    41. That there is little (practical) difference separating both major political parties isn‘t lost, however, on clear-headed individuals seeking an alternative to divisive symmetries; whatever their political origins might be


    42. Hilderich was already on his feet, following Amonas from close behind, careful with his steps, avoiding what seemed the most grisly pathways and wet spots that held soft matter of dubious origins underneath


    43. Kazowskis also had a multitude of questions about Jan Woznica, asking about his accent, his origins, why he needed a cart, and where he was going


    44. He explained away his origins near the Baltic by saying that they had been expelled by the Germans even before 1939 and remained here in the south


    45. Molo sniggered at the thought of such a fantastic artifact of mysterious origins and unheard of qualities as that stone, in the hands of a savage that could barely use a wheel, if in fact he had ever seen one in his life


    46. We have seen now the origins of common dental disease


    47. Einstein’s special and general relativity…quantum mechanics…the origins of the universe…medical knowledge doubling every four years…much has been learned


    48. The Eastern Christian entity of the seventh century (AD 600) was far removed from its apostolic origins


    49. “The name of a many-sided movement in the 1st and 2nd centuries of the Christian era which combined the mythology and symbolism of several pagan religions with the teachings of Christ…had two characteristic features: a metaphysical dualism of matter and spirit whose origins are to be found in the physical dualism of darkness and light in the Parsic (or Persian) religion; and a doctrine of redemption, by which those who devote themselves to gnosis, or a higher knowledge, may proceed from the former to the latter realm…Much of Gnostic literature was falsely ascribed to such authors as the disciples of Jesus, Jewish prophets, heroes of antiquity, or imaginary personages…With the decline of the pagan religions around the time of Christ, a conscious movement to syncretize (attempt to smoothly unite) all religions was in progress…In the early years of Christianity, only loose boundaries were formed between the Church and contemporary cults; the syncretic movement did not exclude the new faith, nor did Christianity fail to absorb elements of foreign beliefs


    50. “[He] acknowledges that we have very little introspective insight into the thought processes we were born with…as for the larger mysteries—like the nature of meaning and the origins of consciousness—it is not clear that Minsky has much to say beyond identifying the solutions that he thinks are bad










































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