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50 quotesThe principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Genius
Arthur Koestler
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The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
Imitation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
Books - Reading
Charles Lamb
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It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
Originality
Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Genius
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
Property
Walter Lippmann
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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Character
John L. Mason
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Originality
Andre Maurois
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But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Originality
Herman Melville
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Originality
John Stuart Mill
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Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Originality
John Stuart Mill
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Adaptability
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Thoughts and Thinking
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
Anarchism
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
Unity
Blaise Pascal
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Sin
Cesare Pavese
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Originality
Laurence J. Peter
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Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
Grief
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
Originality
Raymond Radiguet
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When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
Originality
John A. Shedd
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Philosophers and Philosophy
Henry David Thoreau
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Originality
Barbara Tuchman
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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
Originality
Voltaire
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
Dissent
Alice Walker
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Quotations
Lord Peter Wimsey
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun