Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
Oscar Wilde
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It's the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.
Chuck Palahniuk
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
Henri Bergson
Version 3.0 of the M2 Resource CD is like the Business Class M2 product line itself: it's a great improvement on an industry-leading original.
Jonathan Randall
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson
With The Closer leading the charge this summer, TNT has firmly established itself as one cables top player in the original series arena.
Steve Koonin
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
Susan Sarandon
Mutants have always been dear to the heart of Devo. One of our earliest influences was the original Island of Lost Souls , ... The whole thing was frightening and unnatural and disturbing.
Mark Mothersbaugh
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Arthur Koestler
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
David Mamet
The original goal of the committee was to clarify the existing language.
Rep Kathleen Curry
It is better to be good than to be original.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
Shania Twain
I lost a copy of the Beatles' White album on vinyl with the original release date.
Stephanie Regan
We're going to restore the original part of the building, not so that it is historically correct, but for other uses.
Michael Chetcuti
Am I seeing the characters of the original diary or the characters from the film?
Helen Fielding
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
William Bennett
Hiring consultants to do these studies seems to have nothing to do with the original purpose of the panel. We're concerned about the direction the panel is taking.
Barbara Ward
Refreshingly original, bracingly adult, and thoroughly delightful, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES is like the answer to a TV prayer you didn't know you'd made.
Robert Bianco
She's the original stealth candidate. It was a shrewd choice for Bush. If you can't ram somebody through who's got a higher profile, you do an end run around the opposition.
Ross Baker
So hackers start original, and get good, and scientists start good, and get original.
Paul Graham
In the original book, Mark's character was just a guy who rented that apartment and encountered the spirit.
Walter Parkes
Our original fans really had a hard time. But then we gained a whole slew of brand-new fans that outweighed the initial fans.
Neal Schon
The chapter issued a new charter from SAE. They were also presented with the original charter [used before the suspension]. The men in the chapter now are listed as the Founding Fathers in the charter.
Buck Cooke
Original programming is the riskiest thing you do in television, ... The failure rate is so high.
Steve Koonin
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.
Theodor Reik
We realized we can never fill the place of the original ones, but we feel like, as much as we care for each other, we can have a good life.
Frances Anders Dansby
A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never reurn to it's original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I think this is maybe the best one, other than the original.
Frank Stallone
To be a classic, a novel should be original.
Ruth Rendell
None of it felt that original to me in theory. We had to do some things differently if we were going to carve our own space.
Peter Berg
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
Brenda Ueland
I think a good adaptation should send you back to the original.
Thomas Kilroy
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have betrayed yourself.
Dr. Rollo May
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
Bernadette Peters
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen Hayes
They're more likely to compare each photo to their original memory and make a positive ID if there's a match, or not make a match. You get many fewer false identifications.
Brian Cutler
It is clear to us that a sale of the company is likely to occur in 2006. With business having improved on the margin, we believe Jill shares could likely command a slight premium to Liz Claiborne's original $18 offer.
Neely Tamminga
This concept possesses the heritage and classic forms of the original Dodge Challenger. However, the ability to use the Dodge Magnum, Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 series architecture as the concept's foundation allowed us to bring a new level of quality and fit-and-finish to a muscle car icon.
Trevor Creed
They didn't want to include that provision in the original document because they were afraid it would deter sales.
Janet Abaray
I've read the original and I'm really looking forward to reading the new chapters by Hilary and Willie's kids.
Colin Cooper
This is an extreme action based on a case that was not even identified in their original complaint.
Lynn Olson
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin
Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
Walter Lang
A column really works best when you really have something to say about something. I haven't had a great original thought on this.
John Tierney
When I moved out here, they told me they were building a hospital down the road; I was one of the original staff members.
Donald Butts
I come from a long line (of strong black women) and have been involved with strong black women, so I have to (make) Original Woman a strong character. She could never be the back half of Omega Man. It just couldn't happen.
Alonzo Washington
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Patrick Kavanagh
You sort of fell in love with Jane when you met her. She was exuberant, original, strong-minded and a very kind woman.
Jacob Epstein
People need to be much more vigilant in looking at e-mails. Just as with the original Love Letter virus, the e-mail will appear to come from someone you know.
Michael Vatis
I thought it would be good to have three people because three people did the original.
Bill Sandusky
The [original] numbers that NASA gave to the White House were that shuttle would cost about $5.5 million per launch and the launch rate would be anywhere between 50 and 60 launches a year.
John Logsdon
These cartoons now have political importance beyond their original meaning. We might not like them, but we will defend the right of anyone to publish them.
Roger Koeppel
A lot of original paintings are in the big exhibitions, so we wanted to attract families, make it hands-on with interactive components that highlight what people learn about him.
Carolyn R. Rebbert
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Philip G. Hamerton
Some of the original members of the agency said they can't remember anything as big as this all the way back to 1951. Even though this weather pattern is normal for Tennessee, it's just not this intense normally.
Donnie Smith
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
Beau Bridges
A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
That makes it cheaper and more compelling for OEMs [original equipment manufacturers, a reference to computer makers] to put Intel's in their PCs because the Celeron is competitively priced with AMD and Cyrix.
Chris Chaney
It's been good to me, and I had no desire to change. It's been lower than the dirt on the ground, but it bounced back, and it's going to keep doing it because it's original. It's the only music that was born in America. Everybody else brought theirs with them.
Henry Townsend
We were the first to create original content as opposed to repurposed content.
Malcolm Bird
The stained-glass windows are original, although we had to have this little transom restored.
Gail Henry
When we really started doing this in August 2004, we had this format. We we're looking for a different format and we came up with this idea, our original idea.
Jerry Camp
I said no. My original vision was that the photos would be black and white.
Cindy Lou Aillaud
We are the only two original ambassadors.
Margaret Zank
I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.
Peter Weir
In order to stay with the roots of Irish music -- it's kind of like classical music -- you need to study it in its pure form. What we try to do is keep it to its original roots.
Gary Burman
Getting the costs down to $20 ex-factory is a big challenge for handset manufacturers and their semiconductor and component suppliers and we believe with our background we can help both Tier 1 handset makers and original design manufacturers to meet this target.
David Mcternan
The original patent didn't have dimensions and contained just enough information to obtain a patent and make competitors sweat.
Marilyn Mccormick
The steel facade was in 1975, so it's been up for 30 years, and behind it is the original concrete from the original construction from 1919 to 1924.
Dan Cessna
This is the original mosaic tile and marble.
Thomas Reid
We are the largest publisher of original content on the Web.
Scott Meyer
Stop motion is a visual look that has inspired so many movies and moviemakers, from the original 1933 'King Kong' to, now, Tim Burton.
Peter Curtis
If they had been serious, they would have gone close to -- or back to -- their original offer.
Steve Brozak
Now we're back to another plan, which is very close to the original plan, except now that plan has to be evaluated and commented on and around and around we go again.
Dick Messerly
I was just trying to be original. I didn't know how well it would go over.
Derrick Caracter
We have such a lead that we should win the overall championship. That was our original goal.
Dave Brolliar
I'm just thinking about tomorrow night. I've never been a planner. I've always taken things day by day. As long as I'm honest to myself and as long as we try to make original-sounding music, I'll be happy.
Diego Garcia
There's a certain poetic license to $76, given that was the original J&J bid.
Nancy Havens
When our dad did the original design and with every effort we put forward, we go back to thermodynamics. That's everything in an engine. A lot of people we deal with are good at understanding how engines work, but they're not good at how thermodynamics work.
Sal Scuderi
Our original application included projections we made during the summer of 2005. Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina and the ever-increasing cost of fuel has made construction materials more expensive than we originally planned. We amended our original application to help balance the effect of those costs.
Paul Rakov
It is really wonderful that we have so many original objects from Darwin's life — original field notebooks, private correspondence, manuscripts, cartoons that friends drew of him as a boy, the magnifying glass he took with him on the Beagle.
Christopher J. Raxworthy
He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.
Alice Cooper
A lot of things have happened since we made our original offer. It is outdated.
Rafael Villaseca
The slip in timing for European launch is not likely to be material, considering original expectations had pegged the launch in the second half of 2006.
Lawrence Keusch
The original bids for construction costs started out at $8 million, then it went to $12 million. To stop the bleeding, we've signed a contract for $13.5 million. It's locked in now.
Larry Bush
We (the board) didn't want to do what the commissioners wanted us to do. We felt that the original Ordinance #77 hadn't even had a chance to work yet.
Judy Davis
It's (the claim) is as bogus as the original.
Bruce Williams
This strength could result in orders coming in as high as $1.4 billion, above our original $1.2 billion estimate for the quarter.
Brett Hodess
There's no such thing as an original idea. We're all inspired by books, magazines and movies.
Kristan Cunningham
You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zeppelin. All you can do is rip them off.
Billy Corgan
We've had to clean up so many messes (the original corporations) left behind. We've been cleaning up their messes for 20 years.
John Kircher
The conditions have changed since the city's original opposition. Development has occurred, and more traffic will be generated through that intersection.
Mark Kruea
We discovered that our original agreement only covered residential inspections, and needed to be broadened to include commercial.
Naomi Compton
It is important you balance new projects with the legal obligation you have to the original 19 projects.
Sue Densmore
Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.
Susan Powter
We have fulfilled the obligations that were put forth in the original legislation.
Anthony Irving
Part of our original criticism to the agreement was that it did not contain sufficient safeguards for data protection of EU citizens.
Graham Watson
This is the only truly original show now on Broadway. It doesn't come from any other play or film or anything like that.
Joe Brooks
The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none.
François R. Chateaubriand
I suspect the biggest hot-button issue is going to be recognition that there are enough flaws in the original plan that something needs to be done. If it's not going to work, then something different needs to happen.
Kevin Henderson
The original restaurant was massive, really too big for a beach hotel. For the restaurant, we wanted to focus less on volume and more on quality.
Tim Michaud
It is much depending on how much evidence we can find by looking through photographs and maps. It is also important to try to maintain its original structure to represent its past.
Mike Corfield
Tickets were offered to the staff at the original price paid for them.
Jann Wenner
I still have the original tapes that had the BASIC that we brought from Boston to Albuquerque that had the first versions of BASIC on them.
Paul Allen
Destroy All Humans! 2 builds upon everything people loved about the first game, adds tons of new features and gives fans of the original and newcomers something to get excited about later this year.
Kelly Flock
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Ingrid Bergman
It's an original. I think I got it at Forbes Field, but I can't remember exactly when. I had to dig it out of retirement for today.
Tom Mccarthy
They just started banging on trash cans and decided to put it together as a thing. It's a really, really original, creative, emotional drum corp.
Bert Mccracken
The original intent was to find out nothing weird had happened at the house, no one ... was murdered here or anything. It was completely random that it came up.
Nelson Taruc
Becky and Charlotte County are known for coming up with original ideas.
Jonell Modys
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
Malcolm Bradbury
Cable networks have gotten stronger in introducing original content.
Shari Anne Brill
That is a change of the original All Black schedule. Canterbury's players are choosing to come back early.
Chris Boyd
People naturally gravitate towards eBay because it's the largest marketplace. We're the original. We've been around the longest and so far, we've been able to hold our own.
Pierre Omidyar
There will be bikes there 70 years old with original paint. We call them survivors.
Scott Swaney
They believed what (the original tracker) identified as places that would have been a boy crawling up the side of the hill were in fact, in their opinion, bear tracks going up and down.
Justin Smith
It seats a crew of 13 and has its original motor transmission.
Violet Watson
You know, the original album title was going to be 'Bad Girl Trapped in a Good Girl Body,' ... But I was talked out of it.
Christine Lavin
The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional -- the idea. That's what is original to you.
William Friedkin
Charlie got this sly look on his face, ... And then he said, 'I want you to put my ashes on all the original 315 peaks I climbed.'
Richard Kane
They have indicated they are going about the appropriate due diligence, background checks, and I understand they have interviewed him. Senator Allard is pleased that they are looking at an individual on the original list and that the process seems to be moving forward.
Sean Conway
The commission did insist it would take a lot to convince it to make a change in its original decision.
Brian Macke
As a condition of the original investment. We have to follow state laws.
James D. Watson
The goal of this project is to capture as much of the original genetic diversity as possible by including many areas in the ongoing breeding program being conducted by the ACF.
Jack Johnston
Because the records have been washed, we have no idea what the original damages were. They're telling me it's every brand you can think of.
Nina Banister
With (Katrina), it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original.
Gilbert Gottfried
We're also bringing back the original vinyl bag and a few other products by mid next year.
Bill Hensley
The original postseason Mariners are going.
Jeff Nelson
They did not provide the services they said they'd provide. That was our original interest in having them as our tenant.
Andrew Walton
That was a huge win for us. Mainly because we're 7-1, and then we're 3-5, and we we're still looking for our original identity.
Mark Woodhead
At the beginning of the competition, they measured how much power was in our house. At the end of the week they will measure again and hopefully we can be at or above our original amount of power.
Alex James
('Other People's Lives') is my first attempt to make a studio album that's got original songs on it, and it's a completely new adventure for me.
Ray Davies
Well, I don't think everybody can make it to Washington D.C. and see the original, which is very impressive, so this one here, coming to the people, they get an opportunity to get to touch and feel.
Harold Johnson
The basic intent of the guidelines has not changed from the first version. We've also changed language where comments indicated that the original language had been misunderstood.
Jennifer Stephens
The original owners conjured up that idea. This was something they felt they wanted to do.
Arthur Rhoads
The original order was a clear violation of the First Amendment and should have never been signed by a judge. We're glad that we were able to correct this constitutional transgression without a more involved legal battle.
George Cox
Anything less than the original bill will not allow parents to know what is going on.
Sadie Fields
Our original plan from the beginning is chasing these two masterminds. After the recent incidents our hunt for them has been stepped up.
Soenarko Artanto
It was one of the original, old 'rat-rod' cars where guys would go out and source parts from all kinds of cars.
Gary Wallace
It's fairly crisp in this, whereas over here in the original image you can see how broken up it is.
David Hathaway
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The original draft had originally ended with our conversation at table.
Theresa Maggio
To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add sheep was a tautology.
Mark Twain
His music is original and the band has been supportive of his solo work.
Shawn Smith
Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.
Hugh Hopper
We were so successful with those original goals that the council decided to update those for the next four years.
Matthew Daily
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Margot Asquith
I see this as falling a couple years behind the original schedule.
Steve Meyers
They can use the account as a local reference, but they can't sell more equipment into there without involving the original partner.
John Combs
They were the original hippie children. They did things the flower children were doing later - outdoor weddings.
Vivian Mathers
It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty.
Alfred Jarry
Local healthcare providers are interested in expanding this to more than the original three hospitals. We, like everyone else, would like to see this expand to a system made available across the country.
Frank Richards
By any measure we have lived up to our original charter and bettered it.
Subramania Sritharan
He's an original genius. He's kind of blazed his own trail.
Martin Short
I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy , ... To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible .
Maria Menounos
She had this old tin bathtub that you can carry around, that they used to use before indoor plumbing. We saw it hanging in her garage. It was the original tub they used in the house. She was going to throw it out, but she let us have it. We hang it up now.
Joyce Jackson
We'll be able to instantly identify that marking on there and be able to trace it back to the original owner.
Sgt. Wes Foster
The cable liner is pushing out and stopping the accelerator pedal from going back to its original position.
Kristen Kinley
If you look at the original drawings you can see how sketchy some of them were.
Norman Gillespie
We found two original framed pictures - one each of George Gilliam and Effie Gilliam.
Reginlo Booker
MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
Ambrose Bierce
The culture of the original Internet was one of trust.
Leonard Kleinrock
Teddy Cottrell is one of the original 3-4 guys in the league. He's a legitimate 3-4 guy. I don't know if that's the route he wants to go, but they played well.
Larry Beightol
Everything is an original piece for the show. We have a lot of artists who haven't shown in Milwaukee before.
Faythe Levine
Our live performances make believers in the band. We put on a different kind of show. We're not a bar band. We're a band for people excited to see original music.
Rick Mazzotta
Esquire was a niche magazine in its original format because it appealed to men as opposed to people at large.
Martin Walker
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert
It was the original intersection of Calcutta. There was a stagecoach stop there, the post office was there. . .It's not in the center of Calcutta, but it has historical value.
Doug Sanford
After all the attention from this article. I was told that the pressure I put on helped to push the compromise. The original bill called for immediate implementation.
Patricia Wright
We're trying to reflect the original concept of the show.
Thomas Crone
For me, that is my ... greatest accomplishment ... getting an original song to break through and connect with people, ... And I am really, really proud of that.
Marty Casey
The photos appear to show somebody who was lying down and incapacitated. And again, intoxication was included in the original police reports.
Robert Ashley
This is intriguing because it could mean (the shroud) derived from an original image of Jesus from when he lived.
Carter Lupton
I am the original, ... Those are my disciples.
Michael Irvin
Having the source code available gives customers what they need: the ability to customize and add new features. We'll also be able to grow in spaces the original Project.net didn't have the resources to do.
Peter Winston
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
Theodor Reik
We just love the way they look and how they fit into a different aesthetic than the Euro-American quilts. Each one has its own individual and original quality.
Jean Tyson
The original piece of property was put together by my grandfather as a weekend place.
Amy Monier
If they insist on their original demand, that would be a deal-breaker.
Robert Aventajado
She's the original good time that was had by all.
Bette Davis
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