"The originality of a subject is in its treatment."
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"Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality."
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"It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur."
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"Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality."
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"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."
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"Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to."
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"It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?"
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"What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it."
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"All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves."
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"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not."
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"The multitude is always in the wrong."
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"No man knows himself as an original."
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"Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory."
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"I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct."
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"Originality provokes originality."
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"Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!"
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"If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul."
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"What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are."
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"To do nothing is in everyone's power."
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"That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men."
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