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  • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of ''Munich'' may exceed the original error of 1938.
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  • Adrian Lyne I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Bill Mumy I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Ramana Maharshi If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.
    Ramana Maharshi
    Indian Hindu mystic and guru (1879 - 1950)
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  • Brad Bird If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bob Kane If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Adam Grant If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • Bel Powley If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Carlo Rubbia In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • David Ogilvy In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Alfred Jarry It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Virginia Woolf It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bobby Jones It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
    Bobby Jones
    American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
    Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz
    German mathematician, philosopher, physicist and diplomat (1646 - 1716)
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  • Cab Calloway It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Adam Smith 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.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Samuel Johnson Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Albert J. Nock 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.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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