“ Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. ”
- Thomas Babington Macaulay- Copy
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“ One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back. ”
- John Edgar Wideman- Copy
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“ Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. ”
- Jean Paul Sartre- Copy
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“ H-P was in the dog house and in the 'show-me mode,' and it's really starting to show. I felt that after speaking with management and seeing some results that we were early on in the turnaround cycle. ”
- Chuck Jones- Copy
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“ To the creative individual all experience is seminal - all events are equidistant from new ideas and insights. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space. ”
- Ronald Graham- Copy
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“ I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate. ”
- Geena Davis- Copy
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“ I would be delighted to take credit for it. It's a good plan. It's a creative and an innovative plan, and it's going to work,... it's a little early for postmortems. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately, none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound. ”
- Harold Macmillan- Copy
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“ I found your essay to be good and original; however, the part that was original was not good, and the part that was good was not original. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. ”
- Freeman Dyson- Copy
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“ An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise. ”
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz- Copy
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“ Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
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“ There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. ”
- Judith Butler- Copy
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“ When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream. ”
- Michel Gondry- Copy
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“ The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done — men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ The Widow and Her Little Maidens A widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early… ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. ”
- Calvin Trillin- Copy
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“ The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark. ”
- L. B. Walton- Copy
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“ The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life. ”
- John Macy- Copy
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