This was not really a stroke of creative genius or an act of stunning originality.

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The conference affirmed that the diversity of national cultures, their uniqueness and originality are an essential basis for human progress and the development of world culture.

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But Hebborn had an original notion of originality.

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Drawing an analogy with the originality of Steve Jobs, Xu tells how he and his co-founders huddled in a meeting room of the loft for two months, thinking up new mobile apps that would be easy to use and win over lots of users.

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His interests ranged across all the arts and he wrote about them with an intense personal involvement and daring originality.

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The most common include originality, creativity, charisma, energy, liveliness, an unusual sense of humor, areas of intellectual brilliance, and spunk.

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The Southern-gothic extravagance of this guy is worthy of Tennessee Williams, but Mr. Nichols, an Arkansan born and bred, has made a film of striking originality.

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He cites Harvard University's glass-flower collection at its Museum of Natural History as an inexhaustible cache of ideas, for form, content and sheer brazen originality.

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