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I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Am Biggest I Am Influenced
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Originality Imitation Judicious Writers
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Life May Orderly Original
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Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Original World Worships Yourself
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There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Christ Death First Flesh
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I think more than anything, as a comedian, I grow tired of the unoriginality of 'crazy cat lady' jokes. It's a hacky joke based on an already-played-out stereotype.

Anything Base Cat Comedian
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I think my original ambition was to be an artist.
Ambition Artist I Think Original
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When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me.

When Originally Came To
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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.

Any Believed Could Curious
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Ambition Inferiority Origin Otherwise
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Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

Birth Cause Death Effect
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Genuine Knowledge Originate Direct
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

Glance Important Revolutions Greatest
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Culture History Knowledge Like Origin
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True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.

True Originality New-manner Vision
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Even His Man Originality
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It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.

Struggle Heart Long Life
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Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.

Dark Energy Exotic Expansion
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Great deal Children Problem Original solution
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A poor original is better than a good imitation.

A poor Original Good imitation
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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

Basic Because Came Chords
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I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.
Disney Film Original Signed
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I discovered you need the blessing of God to manage men. If you have enough money, your business will thrive. If you have good, dependable machines, your business will thrive. If you have original genuine materials, your business will thrive, but original or genuine is not written on any man’s forehead…

Blessing God Money Business
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Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Actually Books Classics Find
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Obliged Regard Minds Clever
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Noble Simplicity Works Nature
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I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

Audience Because Bush Ended
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English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

Armstrong Banjo English Ind
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Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.

Preaching Original thing Done Familiar
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It is always possible to create something original.

Always possible Create Original
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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Consider Follow Knowledge Live
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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

About Achieving Capable Conceiving
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

Because Books Fun Grew
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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

Before Believe Day Every
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Keep it pure. Keep it original.
Keep it Pure Original
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

Human nature Eternal Follows Keeps
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He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.

Taught us Human beings Equal Sex
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Spirituality is not theology or ideology. It is simple a way of life, pure and original as was given by the most high.
Spirituality Theology Ideology Way
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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.

Accept Burden Buy Front
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That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

Actor Actor Anyway Because
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Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
Give Had Mysterious Origin
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself

Being Betrayed Express Ideas
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The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Also Difficult Himself His
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Better To fail Originality Succeed
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Diversity Faculties First Government
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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

About Certainly Does Everything
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The God concept, of course, originated from mankind’s innate knowledge that consciousness precedes physical construction.

God concept Originated Mankind's innate Knowledge
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

Great advantage Student Original memoirs Science
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Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Great innovators Original thinkers Mediocrities
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty, unfamiliar and perilous.
Solitude Gives birth Original Beauty
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