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  • It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty.
  • As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
  • Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
  • You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.
  • And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.
  • Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
  • Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
  • Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.
  • Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.
  • The best translation is not that which is most like the original but which is the most different from it.
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Freeman Dyson A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Rebecca West All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Carl Bernstein All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Man Ray An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
    Man Ray
    American visual artist (1890 - 1976)
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  • Samuel Johnson And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buddy Rich And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Carl Hagelin As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Ben Hardy As far as I know, the original 'X-Men' actors will remain in the franchise.
    Ben Hardy
    British actor (1991 - )
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  • Harold Macmillan As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Bob Seger Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bruce Johnston Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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