#original

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

#confuse #cut #forced #i #me

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

#confuse #forced #i #me #near

We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#duties #funds #get #government #need

Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota. ↗

— Dave Barry

#native-americans #us-history #men

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind. ↗

— Patti Smith

#inspiration #janis-joplin #jim-morrison #music #originality

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#history #original-sin #forgiveness

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#fresh #originality #pair #simply

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers. ↗

— Les Baxter

#becomes #challenge #hit #imagination #ingenuity

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. ↗

— Paul Berg

#career #considered #deciding #get #had

A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that men have then added their own foreign vices to the solid and simple foundation of his own private vices. It would astound him to realize that they have actually, by their strange erratic path, avoided his vices as well as his virtues. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#vice #virtue #men