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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection. — Richard Leakey
Let me tell you something. As we were walking around in the store, Marilyn and I were just really impressed by all the novelties and… — Dan Quayle
I think phone cases will always be novelties, but there's always so many interesting phone cases I like phone cases and I think the sillier… — Skrillex
Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern… — George Gilder
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by… — Ernst Mayr
I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not… — Eva Zeisel
We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays… — Richard Hofstadter
It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most. — Homer
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when… — Carson Daly
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. — Erik Naggum
It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high… — Jonathan Haidt
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. — Marilyn Hacker
I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn… — Owen Hart
Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India… — Akshay Kumar
Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition… — Margaret Atwood
Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the redefinition of civil… — Thomas J. Paprocki
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and… — Wendell Berry
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary… — Joseph Addison
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. — Blaise Pascal
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium;… — Stewart Brand
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions. — Robert Genn
We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse… — Robert Genn
At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed… — Walt Disney

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