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"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
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"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."

"Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."

"Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality."

"Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin."

"People who copy you will always be one step behind."

"When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality."

"There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands."
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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

"The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes."

"Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recommended to them by their feelings, that multitudes have held the undoubting belief in an Omnipotent Author of Hell, and have nevertheless identified that being with the one best conception they were able to form of perfect goodness."

"Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature."

"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."

"Religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism."

"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties."

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."

"The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it."
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