#original

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. ↗

— George Saintsbury

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I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

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My best friend was Aboriginal. ↗

— Isabel Lucas

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

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There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's head. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

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Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ↗

— Jean Guitton

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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest. ↗

— Mike Norton

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Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. ↗

— Thomas Couture

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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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