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    My American Journey
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    One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
    â€” L OUIS K RONENBERGER
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    If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.
    â€” S AMUEL P . G INDER
    in
Washington Post
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    It is unwise to do unto others as you would that they do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
    â€” B ERNARD S HAW
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    What you dislike for yourself do not like for me.
    â€” S PANISH PROVERB
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    Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
    â€” B ERTRAND R USSELL
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    T HE PRINCIPAL MARK OF GENIUS  . . .
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    The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
    â€” A RTHUR K OESTLER
    The Act of Creation
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    Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe—you can’t take a taxi.
    â€” A LAN A LDA
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    The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
    â€” M ARCEL P ROUST
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    You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
    â€” D OUG F LOYD
    in
Spokesman Review
(Spokane, Washington)
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    Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?
    â€” R EV. B ILLY G RAHAM
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    While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
    â€” J OHN L . M ASON
    An Enemy Called Average
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    The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
    â€” D ANIEL J . B OORSTIN
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    Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.
    â€” F RANK T YGER
    in
Forbes
magazine
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    It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.
    â€” H ENRI P OINCARÉ
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    Don’t expect anything original from an echo.
    â€”Quoted in “The 365 Great Quotes-a-Year Calendar”
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    Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
    â€” W ILL D URANT
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    Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
    â€” L ORRAINE H ANSBERRY
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    If you’re strong enough, there are no precedents.
    â€” F . S COTT F ITZGERALD
    The Crack-Up
, edited by Edmund Wilson
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    The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
    â€” A RTHUR K OESTLER
    The Act of Creation
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    To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
    â€” T HEODORE H . W HITE
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    Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
    â€” M IGNON M C L AUGHLIN
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    Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
    â€” E RICA J ONG
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    To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.
    â€” W ILL H ENRY
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    When there is an original sound in the world, it wakens a hundred echoes.
    â€” J OHN A . S HEDD
    Salt from My Attic
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    The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything.” I say, “Only one man can do anything.” One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.
    â€” J OHN W . G ARDNER
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    Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.
    â€” J OHANN W OLFGANG VON G OETHE
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    Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person, its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
    â€” S AMUEL B UTLER
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    The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.
    â€” I GOR S IKORSKY
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    The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
    â€” F ERDINAND F OCH
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