"People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. What can we call our own except energy, strength and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favour."
–– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German author, scientist, and statesman
via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 11
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