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“The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.”
Randall Price
“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“On a sofa upholstered in panther skinMona did researches in original sin.”
William Plomer
“He shows great originality, which must be curbed at all cost”
Peter Ustinov
“The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.”
Antoine Lavoisier
“Insist upon yourself. Be original.”
“Original Lyrics to "Hole" - "Rock Star"How'd you like to be a rock star?Lots of fun to be a rock starI think you'd rather dieBut I bet you'd like to tryHow'd you like to be in Nirvana?Barrel of laughs to be in NirvanaHow'd you like to be in Nirvana?I think you'd rather die”
Courtney Love
“It is not permitted to a man who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.”
William Butler Yeats
“How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.”
Blaise Pascal
“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
Beatrix Potter
