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There is nothing new under the sun. (Quote by - Bible)

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first. (Quote by - Clement Greenberg)

I invent nothing. I rediscover. (Quote by - Auguste Rodin)

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. (Quote by - James Stephens)

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. (Quote by - Dean William R. Inge)

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. (Quote by - Edith Wharton)

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. (Quote by - Aesop)

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

The public want ambitious programmes from the BBC and real originality. (Quote by - Mark Thompson)

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)

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