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"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
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"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."
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"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
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"No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity."
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"Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."
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"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."
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"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."
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"Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality."
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"You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn't need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!"
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"None of my art is based on how others think i should have done it."
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"When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect."
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"All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain."
Pain
"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
Life
"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."
Evil
"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men."
Man
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
War
"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."
Act
"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."
Man
"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
Being
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
People
"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
Society
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