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• Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before
  it means putting old ideas together in new ways....
• Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. -- Voltaire
• The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
• Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. -- Isaac Bashevis Singe
• There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. Isaac Disraeli
• When the writer becomes the center of his attention, he becomes a nudnik.
  And a nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik....
• A good imitation is the most perfect originality. -- Voltaire
• Originality is just a fresh pair of eyes. -- W. Wilso
• Originality is undetected plagiarism. -- Dean W.R. Inge