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For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else. ↗

— August Wilson

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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. ↗

— Orville Wright

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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

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Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

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