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The test of the originality for an idea is not the absence of one single predecessor but the presence of multiple but incompatible ones.
— Originality
The test of the originality for an idea is not the absence of one single predecessor but the presence of multiple but incompatible ones.
Many people ... go through life with hardly an original thought; gravitate from one pleasure or amusement to another; gain a livelihood doing what someone else has assigned; flee boredom as best they can; marry and beget children; and then, without having made the slightest difference of any unique significance, die and decay like any animal.
