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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

- Anonymous

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

- Ezra Pound

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

- Haida saying

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.

- Voltaire

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

- James Stephens

What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.

- Mark Twain

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

- T. S. Eliot

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

- Auguste Rodin

There is nothing new under the sun.

- Bible

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

- Eric Hoffer

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

- Clement Greenberg

Riding hard for glory.

- Irving Layton

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

- Dean William R. Inge

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.

- Abraham Lincoln