#origins

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#dependence #his #insofar #only #opportunities

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#cultural #difference #differences #experience #gender

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#color #designate #developing #french #french people

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills. ↗

— Albert Claude

#find #hope #i #ills #life

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

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#depths #historical #i #judged #making

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#had #human #i #lucy #name

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#conversation #hide #i #i am #i am what i am

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe. ↗

— Criss Jami

#atheism #atheist #beginning #belief #cause