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Evolution shows that in the long run, if the superior mixes with the inferior, the product is halfway between, and inferior to what you started… — George Lincoln Rockwell
The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is… — Matt Mickiewicz
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original. — Margaret Fuller
Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight. — Pat Condell
I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas. — Martha Stewart
Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making… — Deborah Harkness
Disobedience was man's Original Virtue. — Robert Anton Wilson
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a… — Lillian Hellman
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. — Willard Van Orman Quine
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of… — William Robertson Smith
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. — Robert K. Merton
Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to… — Walter A. Shewhart
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a… — Richard Leakey
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting… — Barnett Newman
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin. — John Fund
One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for… — Sophia Lyon Fahs
With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees me moving away… — Alison Moyet
Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations… — Clarice Cliff
Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective… — Oren Peli
I heard there were two local guys in town doing songs and comedy so I thought I'd take a look....they took my breath away...with their… — Tommy Smothers
By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around. — Barry Sonnenfeld
My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting… but at the same time give the human touch to… — Henry Ossawa Tanner
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself. — T Bone Burnett
I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to… — Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the… — Albert Pinkham Ryder

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