#original

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#complete #consciousness #does #everything #existence

Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie. ↗

— Ryan Murphy

#movie #originally #popular

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achieving #capable #conceiving #him #his

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#business #create #creative #modern #modern world

The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. ↗

— Michael Oxley

#beyond #corps #cutting-edge #enabled #equipment

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#assumed #because #began #big #big surprise

The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise. ↗

— Ben Pimlott

#bad press #commonwealth #consistently #demise #empire

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country. ↗

— Ted Rall

#allied #billion #commitment #country #coupled

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments. ↗

— Thomas Reed

#commandments #discovery #i #one thing #original

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process. ↗

— George A. Romero

#could #dark #days #effect #expensive