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“Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.”
Robert Frost
“The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.”
Leo Burnett
“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
Stephen Fry
“Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.”
Voltaire
“Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.”
Ansel Adams
“Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge”
Dante Alighieri
“It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.”
Dale Dauten
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice”
Clarence Darrow
