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This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. Brenda Ueland

Wisdom Important Everybody Say Something Talented Learned Original

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. C. S. Lewis

Truth Art You Man Be Original Try Will Become Before Nine Caring Out Tell Has-Been About Ten Having Bothers Simply Without How Been Times Often Whereas Literature Noticed Who Original Even Originality Ever

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley

Religion Solitude Mind Will More Powerful Towards Original Incline

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue. John Shelby Spong

Life Humanity Guilt Closed Creation Believe Christianity Minds About Supernatural Divine Sin New Fallen Achieving Rescue Original Original Sin Consciousness

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear. Jiddu Krishnamurti

People Result Nothing Second-Hand Our Guided Circumstances Ourselves Kinds Tendencies Clear Environment New Accept Pristine Been Discovered Influences Either Us Nothing New Original Lived Compelled

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. Adam Smith

World Money Wealth First All Things Purchase Purchased Silver Price Labour Gold Paid Original Originally Things

If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends. Nina Garcia

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln

Thoughts Man Books Those New His Very Show Original Serve

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. Bernard Meltzer

God You Be Original Yourself People Try Made Alike Exactly Never Because Just Being Want Being Yourself Original Two Two People

Be yourself. The world worships the original. Ingrid Bergman

Yourself World Be Yourself Worships Original

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. Karl Marx

Technology Together Wealth Soil Only Various Develops Combining Sources Labourer Processes Social Capitalist Production Original Therefore Whole

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. Stephen Fry

Library Too Must Idea Them Full Hard Original Original Idea

I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences. I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity. Yehuda Berg

Best Spiritual Together Will Differences Believe Unity Our All Religions Would Would-Be Find Religions Similarities Something Buddha Moses Because Builds Got Sources Friends Just Taught Mohammed Should Original Jesus Basis

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. Orison Swett Marden

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Voltaire

Nothing Imitation Borrowed Writers Most Another Judicious Original Originality

I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.' I said 'Why?' She said: 'Because you're not an original thinker.' John Bercow

Good You Wife Hopeless Politician Academic Liked She Because Said Been Very Original Why Thinker Beloved

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful. Shania Twain

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The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results. Shaun Tan

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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. Warren Bennis

Teacher Better Mediocrity Everywhere Insights Only Excellence Studying Exemplary Truly Than Ordinary Lessons Original Found Profound

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. Dorothy L. Sayers

Thinking Saves Everything Always Quotation Original

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government. Joe Baca

Government Freedom Freedom Of Speech Separation States Develop Powers Principles American Native Native Americans Form Land Inhabitants Helped Original Now United Foundation Fundamental United States United States Government Fundamental Principles Speech

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