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If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Sir Isaac Newton

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Martin Vanbee

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
C. E. M. Joad

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