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If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards… — Rod Dreher
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. — Pablo Picasso
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want. — Richard Branson
Azhar Usman is a true original and will laugh the hate right out of you. — Louie Anderson
The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think… — Jim Jarmusch
An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive. — Michael Medved
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state. — Ramana Maharshi
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each… — Herbert Hoover
The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely… — Seth Godin
At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not… — Daniel B. Wallace
All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one… — Henri Bergson
The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil means… — Janet Finch
Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and solutions… — Barry Nalebuff
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us. — Pope John Paul II
Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a continual dance… — Gary Zukav
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state. — Thomas Carlyle
God is not a duplicator, He is a Creator. You are an original! — Reinhard Bonnke
When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream. — Michel Gondry
One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people. — Tommy Ramone
If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator… — Miroslav Volf
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. — Robertson Davies
Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it's from the Latin word cor, meaning heart - and… — BrenÃ© Brown
To be a classic, a novel should be original. — Ruth Rendell
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your… — Agnes Martin

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