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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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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. – Eric Hoffer

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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – 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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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. – Pau (Pablo) Casals

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Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more. – Jean De La Bruyere

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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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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution. – Graham Greene

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I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself. – Lenny Kravitz

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