Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 April 1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet.
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
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