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Origin

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.

The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.

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Origin Quotations

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
Robert Collier

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
Ambrose Bierce

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
Eric Hoffer

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow

Origin Translations

origin in Afrikaans is oorsprong, herkoms
origin in Danish is oprindelse
origin in Dutch is oorsprong, afkomst, herkomst
origin in French is origine, provenance
origin in German is Ursprung, Anfang, Ursprung
origin in Hungarian is eredet
origin in Italian is origine, origine, principio
origin in Latin is primordium, ortus, origo, initium, satus, fons
origin in Portuguese is origem
origin in Spanish is procedencia, origen

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