#origins

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#actual #american #based #british #china

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#broad #circumstance #continents #flowering #forests

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. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#certainly #consensus #even #first #first world

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

#ancient #bali #been #cultures #few

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. ↗

— Jean Philippe Rameau

#common #cries #emotive #emphasis #first

If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will meet another person and feel as though I have stepped into a shallow puddle on the street, there is nothing in it. Or maybe some of us come from the water, and some of us come from somewhere else; then it's all a matter of finding those who are the same as us. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#depths #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #origins #water

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. ↗

— Allen Tate

#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal

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. ↗

— Adam Pascal

#been #five #gotten #i #into

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. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#between #care #connection #different #ethic

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#also #because #before #comprehended #development