#origin

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#originality

Only those with no memory insist on their originality. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#originality #originality

That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#originality

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#nihilism #russia #originality

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#quotations #thought #originality

Long dismissed as children's stories or 'myths' by Westerners, Australian Aboriginal stories have only recently begun to be taken seriously for what they are: the longest continuous record of historic events and spirituality in the world. ↗

— Karl-Erik Sveiby

#environment #non-fiction #historical-fiction

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. ↗

— John Acton

#greek #moves #nature #nothing #origin

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#because #frustration #get #hurt #i

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#hypothetical #life #origin #referred #rna

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#origin #said #spirit #true