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I think some traditions value originality more than others. That being said, if you get a ghost writer, I think most pastors would heavily frown on it, however, from a practical money perspective, that’s not something a lot of pastors can do. The average church congregation in the US is around 100 people, and the funds simply are n’t there to pay someone to do that work for you. – Stu Strachan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We had a such a stamp of originality on what we were trying to do. – Naomi Judd	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words. – Bob Seger	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
That erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else. – H. L. Mencken	added by Normando 3 years ago
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville	added by anonymous 6 years ago
The summer is built around familiarity, many cultural critics who shape awareness for films are obsessed with sequels and derivative material. They wildly crave it. That kind of environment is hostile to originality. It only makes space for derivative material and rejects originality. I think Warner Bros. was uncomfortable with that environment. – Lana Wachowski	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. – William Ralph Inge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. – Joseph Brodsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium. – Milan Kundera	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing. – Mary McCarthy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Masterful work always comes from putting a higher importance on originality over marketability. – Brandon A. Trean	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Originality is merely an illusion. – M. C. Escher	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. – Ansel Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. – George Lois	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality. – Radiquet	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. – James Stephens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. – Isaac Bashevis Singer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality. – Beatrix Potter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What is originality Undetected plagiarism. – William Ralph Inge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own. – Joel H. Hildebrand	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. – Thomas W. Higginson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I think some traditions value originality more than others. That being said, if you get a ghost writer, I think most pastors would heavily frown on it, however, from a practical money perspective, that’s not something a lot of pastors can do. The average church congregation in the US is around 100 people, and the funds simply are n’t there to pay someone to do that work for you.

– Stu Strachan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had a such a stamp of originality on what we were trying to do.

– Naomi Judd

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.

– Bob Seger

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

That erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.

– H. L. Mencken

added by Normando
3 years ago

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

– Herman Melville

added by anonymous
6 years ago

The summer is built around familiarity, many cultural critics who shape awareness for films are obsessed with sequels and derivative material. They wildly crave it. That kind of environment is hostile to originality. It only makes space for derivative material and rejects originality. I think Warner Bros. was uncomfortable with that environment.

– Lana Wachowski

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

– William Ralph Inge

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

– Joseph Brodsky

added by anonymous
10 years ago

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.

– Milan Kundera

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

– Mary McCarthy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

– Herman Melville

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Masterful work always comes from putting a higher importance on originality over marketability.

– Brandon A. Trean

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Originality is merely an illusion.

– M. C. Escher

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

– Ansel Adams

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

– George Lois

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.

– Radiquet