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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what w

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. – Eric Hoffer

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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer

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ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe — you cant take a taxi. – Alan Alda

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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. – Francis Bacon

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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 and art. – Bliss Carman

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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. – Charles Baudelaire

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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. – George W. Bush

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Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. – Archie Shepp

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American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams. – Pico Iyer

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. – George Bernard Shaw

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