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Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original… — Dave Barry
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds… — Marcel Proust
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid. — Bob Cousy
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original. — Alice Cooper
Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be… — BrenÃ© Brown
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness… — Julia Cameron
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.. — H. L. Mencken
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. — Blaise Pascal
All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves. — James Russell Lowell
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any… — Ramana Maharshi
The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it… — Rajneesh
Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in your crystal clarity, for the… — Rajneesh
Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it is very simple… — Rajneesh
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in… — Rajneesh
Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature. — Rajneesh
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — Barbara Tuchman
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. — Antonio Gaudi
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. — Billy Joel
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself… — Agatha Christie
If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants,… — Steven Chu
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. — Walter Lippmann
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many… — Henry David Thoreau

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