#origin

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud. ↗

— Ira Glass

#fun #i #i love #loud #love

I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism. ↗

— Charles Anthon

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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#critics #doing #elements #ever #formula

Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#form #hard #islam #original #pliable

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#human mind #known #mind #original #outlet