Famous Novelty Quotes
271 Novelty quotes by 227 unique authors
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Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.
— Tim Jackson
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Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and…
— Tim Jackson
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Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
— Tim Jackson
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest…
— James Fenimore Cooper
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The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
— Thomas Griffith
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Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
— Robert South
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In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave…
— Charlotte Smith
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To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed,…
— James Buchan
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Nature conserves, prefers novelty.
— Terence McKenna
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Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
— John Roberts
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We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way…
— Mark Twain
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One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of…
— William Hazlitt
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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
— Christopher Morley
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for…
— Larry Hagman
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The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various…
— Robert Rainy
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Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility
— Legal Maxim
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It is good to come to a future which you do not know. It is good if God brings you to the borders of some…
— Phillips Brooks
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By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for its own sake;…
— Unknown Author
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To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony.
— Unknown Author
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A guy goes to a local novelty shop and finds a pair of x-ray glasses. He checks them out, and isnt fully convinced, but the…
— Theophilus
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