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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language… — Bayard Taylor
I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that I turned into… — Johnny Depp
It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty… — John Herschel
With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born… — John Paul Caponigro
The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought. — Frank Barron
Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before my eyes. Then… — John Scarne
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society… — Alfred North Whitehead
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the… — Alfred North Whitehead
I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or… — William Gibson
That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do… — William Gibson
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. — Stephen Jay Gould
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more… — Baltasar Gracian
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced… — Nicolaus Copernicus
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. — William Cowper
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you… — Joshua Foer
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our… — Shelby Foote
To the old, the new is usually bad news. — Eric Hoffer
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty. — Thomas Hood
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally. — Bil Keane
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty. — Madeleine M. Kunin
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and… — John Lasseter
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent… — Walter Lippmann
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil,… — Henry Miller

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