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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. — Oscar Wilde
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization… — Edward Abbey
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. — Julia Cameron
Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in… — Martin Buber
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through… — Oscar Wilde
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many… — Marcel Proust
The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. — Richard Bach
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. — Dorothy L. Sayers
...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home… — Rebecca Solnit
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor… — Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. — Chuck Palahniuk
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara… — Haruki Murakami
Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel,… — Janet Frame
You were born original don't die a copy — Ben Mikaelsen
The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world. — Keith Ablow
History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess… — Jasper Fforde
How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our… — Erwin McManus
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot… — Harvey Mackay
Don't try to be original; just try to be good. — Paul Rand
Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a… — Anais Nin
If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your… — Orson Scott Card
While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts… — Haim Ginott
The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym… — Vladimir Nabokov

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