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In literature, the word "sources" is employed in a variety of ways to denote origins, foundations, or points of reference. Authors use it to describe external materials that form the basis of historical narratives or empirical evidence, as seen in discussions of national dependency on outside inputs ([1]) or the reliance on primary documents for academic studies ([2], [3]). At the same time, "sources" can refer to abstract origins, such as the root of creative inspiration or philosophical thought ([4], [5], [6]), and even to the financial underpinnings of institutions, as in public markets or municipal revenues ([7], [8]). This multiplicity of meanings underscores a literary versatility where "sources" both ground arguments in concrete evidence and evoke the deeper, sometimes elusive beginnings of ideas and phenomena.
  1. This sorrowful result shows the weakness of a country depending wholly upon sources external to itself for the part it is playing in the world.
    — from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. Mahan
  2. {307} I subjoin a list of sources and of especial literature which also contains additional references.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  3. The primary sources provide a glimpse both into the history of the Douay-Rheims version and the English language itself.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  4. Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration.
    — from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  5. First, as concerns the sources of metaphysical cognition, its very concept implies that they cannot be empirical.
    — from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant
  6. We may now take a survey of the sources of our knowledge, as they have appeared in the course of our analysis.
    — from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
  7. Among the most reliable sources of revenue possessed by many of our existing municipalities are their so-called “public markets.”
    — from Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Sir Ebenezer Howard
  8. Tell what are the great sources of waste of coal, in the mines, and in its use, and how they can be reduced.
    — from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America

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