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The translation called good has original value as a work of art. — Benedetto Croce
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. — Franz Grillparzer
Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers. — Hildegard of Bingen
You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times. — Mark Duplass
The original language of Christianity is translation. — Lamin Sanneh
I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be… — Octavia Butler
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent… — Margaret Fuller
I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult. — Jane Siberry
If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original… — Richard P. Feynman
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written… — Robert P. Crease
A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so… — Phillip Noyce
It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something… — Louie Giglio
We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. — William Godwin
You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy. — Myles Munroe
Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least,… — Dan Rather
He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint,… — Jerry Wexler
Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders. — Jim Woodring
When I created Chipotle in 1993, I had a very simple idea: Offer a simple menu of great food prepared fresh each day, using many… — Steve Ells
I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design. — Josh McDowell
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form… — Mike Figgis
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and… — Benjamin Disraeli
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin,… — Pearl S. Buck
There is nothing original; all is reflected light. — Honore de Balzac
All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original… — Isaac D'Israeli
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… — Isaac D'Israeli

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