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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
I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads.… — Aaliyah
To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs. — Brian Chesky
These Australians hear the whispering in their heart and know it can only be silenced by coming to terms with the original owners of this… — Patrick Dodson
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs… — Paul Brown
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. — Norman O. Brown
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that… — Dalai Lama
You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,… — Samuel Johnson
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at… — Nicholas Delbanco
Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control… — J P Donleavy
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to… — Susan Sontag
When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians. — Noel Pearson
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up. — Raymond E. Feist
There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a student… — Howard Whitley Eves

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