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A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for… — Benjamin Franklin
The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and… — Eric Hoffer
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then… — Andre Maurois
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a… — Albert Schweitzer
The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart. — Mencius
In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what… — William Hazlitt
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails… — Dalai Lama
Only he can be an artist who has a religion all his own - an original way of viewing infinity. — Vincent Van Gogh
Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore.… — Alfred Hitchcock
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal
I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity,… — Joe Locke
The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in… — Henri Matisse
Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind. — Epicurus
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and… — Henri Bergson
If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you… — Paul Gauguin
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress. — Anatole Broyard
Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face… — Dogen
Serve others for they are reflections of the same Entity of which you are yourself another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except… — Sathya Sai Baba
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. — Paul Cezanne
A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I… — Wilhelm Reich
Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original. — John Cleese
I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The… — Wes Craven
We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's… — Wesley Clark
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the… — Martin Seligman
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. — Vittorio Alfieri

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