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Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a number of generally… — Stefan Kieszling
Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution… — Scott D. Cook
I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all… — Steven Morrissey
Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. — Sargent Shriver
A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading. — Fairfax M. Cone
The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted… — David Alan Harvey
Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual… — Honor Harger
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening… — Huangbo Xiyun
Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly… — Francis Parkman
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. — Derek Parfit
Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to… — Aldous Huxley
No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to… — Ashly Lorenzana
At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or a… — Carl Zimmer
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within… — Elizabeth Berg
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it… — Honore de Balzac
All errors are just ordinary, what extraordinary sin can you commit? All the sins have been committed already. You cannot find a new sin -… — Rajneesh
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the… — Fernando Pessoa
I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from… — Joel Siegel
Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize… — Rob Brezsny
The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label… — Robert H. Schuller
When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few… — Samuel Johnson
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks… — John Kenneth Galbraith

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