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"originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing." »Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"originality is merely an illusion." »M. C. Escher
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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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"What is originality Undetected plagiarism." »William Ralph Inge
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"originality is the art of concealing your source." »Franklin P. Jones
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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." »Herman Melville
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"Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality." »Beatrix Potter
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"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality." »John Stuart Mill
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"originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes." »Thomas W. Higginson
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"originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it." »Laurence J. Peter
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"originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment." »Josh Billings
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"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything." »George Lois
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"Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do." »Robert Henri
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"A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage." »Sir Walter Besant
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"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality." »Radiquet
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"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with." »Thomas Carlyle
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"The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own." »Joel H. Hildebrand
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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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"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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