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“Insist upon yourself. Be original.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.”
Buddha
“Originality is the art of concealing your sources”
Benjamin Franklin
“The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality”
Kahlil Gibran
“One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation.”
“Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.”
Anthony Storr
“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”
Lao Tzu