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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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worn facts; find new ramifications in old stimuli; and new concepts in a mentally indolent world. They are original thinkers. People who really accomplish, may really revolutionize time-tested methods; they may be rebels; they more than likely are non-conformers. But this in itself does not make these great. Scarcely so! People who do constructive creative things must above all maintain a spirit of independence and freedom. It is the independent, imaginative thinkers who are prone to envision new aspects, and try out new methods, devices, ideas - and lo! Sometimes something mighty springs from just such a lowly beginning.
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worn facts; find new ramifications in old stimuli; and new concepts in a mentally indolent world. They are original thinkers. People who really accomplish, may really revolutionize time-tested methods; they may be rebels; they more than likely are non-conformers. But this in itself does not make these great. Scarcely so! People who do constructive creative things must above all maintain a spirit of independence and freedom. It is the independent, imaginative thinkers who are prone to envision new aspects, and try out new methods, devices, ideas - and lo! Sometimes something mighty springs from just such a lowly beginning.
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