#origin

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

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I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. ↗

— Hans Kung

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All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#nothing #original #power #reason #regimes

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#am #did #hip #hip hop #hip-hop

There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. ↗

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr.

#atheism #atheist #biology #cosmology #guessing