Doris Lessing
(1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
“Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn everybody else.”
Statement made on his deathbed to his sons.
Cassius Dio, Book 77, Part 16.
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Source: Sense and Sensibility
George Goodman
(1930–2014) American author and economics commentator
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 12, Computers And Computeers, p. 169
Frédéric Bastiat
(1801–1850) French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly
The State in Journal des débats (1848) par. 5.20.
Variant: The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.
“Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing.”
Raymond Radiguet
(1903–1923) French writer
L'originalité consiste à essayer de faire comme tout le monde sans y parvenir.
As quoted by Jean Cocteau in his acceptance speech http://books.google.com/books?id=QXtJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22L'originalit%C3%A9+consiste+%C3%A0+essayer+de+faire+comme+tout+le+monde+sans+y+parvenir%22&pg=PA18#v=onepage to the Académie Française (20 October 1955)
“Jews are like everybody else, only more so.”
John G. Schmitz
(1930–2001) American politician
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“Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing.”
Jean Cocteau
(1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Raymond Radiguet, who was quoted by Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Française (October 1955)
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