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Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand.… — Isaac D'Israeli
In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him. — Timothy Keller
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways… — Ken Robinson
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion. — Sri Chinmoy
I think jeans have gotten away from the original meaning, that symbol of freedom; they've gone gimmicky and turned into a status item. Our denim… — Johan Lindeberg
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature. — Laozi
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. — Aldous Huxley
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have… — George Edward Woodberry
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act… — Emile M. Cioran
An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform… — Andre Gide
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. — Alice Walker
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe… — Margot Asquith
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral… — Simone de Beauvoir
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed… — James Bryce
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. — Blaise Pascal
The original dream of Facebook Platform was to enable developers to build experiences that were social at their core, like Facebook Photos, without having to… — Joe Greene
It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of… — Jacques Barzun
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design… — Edward Hoagland
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything… — Ursula K. Le Guin
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand… — Alfred de Vigny
At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if… — Mort Walker
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow… — Malcolm Bradbury

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