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Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid. — Claes Oldenburg
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself,… — Thomas Carlyle
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist. — Lukas Foss
I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help. — Sam Shepard
The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did… — Diana Krall
A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and… — Merrill Markoe
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. — John G. Shedd
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in… — Thomas Sprat
I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation. — Charles Darwin
I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in… — Paula Modersohn-Becker
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise. — Gottfried Leibniz
The greatest moments of Native History lie ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place. The Native American has been… — Billy Graham
We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the holiday is the… — Ralph Levy
No man knows himself as an original. — Washington Allston
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange… — Walter Benjamin
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected… — Hannah Arendt
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented… — Thomas Nagel
The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony. — Bede Griffiths
In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests in the physical.… — Corinne Heline
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame… — Lewis Mumford
Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face. — Rajneesh

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