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• Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD – the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

  David Neeleman

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• The burden of originality is one that most people don’t want to accept. They’d rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they’re supposed to like, what they’re supposed to buy, and what they’re supposed to laugh at.

  Brian Hugh Warner

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• Originality and the feeling of one’s own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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• When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

  Steve Lacy

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• Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

  George Henry Lewes

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• The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

  Simone de Beauvoir

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• Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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• What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

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• Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

  Raymond Radiguet

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• The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

  Blaise Pascal

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• 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

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• Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

  W. H. Auden

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• Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

  Thomas Carlyle

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• A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

  James Stephens

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• Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

  Bliss Carman

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• The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

  Arthur Koestler

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• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

  Auguste Rodin

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• Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

  Aesop

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• All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

  John Stuart Mill

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