A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Thomas Sprat
Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.
Bill Monroe
But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
Rafael Palmeiro
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
Sallust
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Euripides
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
Henry A. Kissinger
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Edsger Dijkstra
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Thomas Carlyle
The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.
Edward Burnett Tylor
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Albert J. Nock
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.
Stephen Greenblatt
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