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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

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I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it. ↗

— Christian Marclay

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When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together. ↗

— Christian Marclay

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. ↗

— Yann Martel

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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. ↗

— Karl Marx

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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. ↗

— Karl Marx

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In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. ↗

— George Mason

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