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ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.
Originality
Alan Alda

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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Originality
Charles Baudelaire

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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Sincerity
Thomas Carlyle

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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Plagiarism
Dean William R. Inge

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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Genius
Arthur Koestler

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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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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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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Originality
Laurence J. Peter

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Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
Originality
Raymond Radiguet

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
Originality
Voltaire

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun