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Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

— Antonin Scalia

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✓Similar Perspectives

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

— Antonin Scalia

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

— Thomas Carlyle

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

— Voltaire

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

— Edith Wharton

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

— John Stuart Mill

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

— Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

— Franklin P. Jones

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

— Dean Inge

✗Opposing Perspectives

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

— James Stephens