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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we...” Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Emma was like all his mistresses; and the charm of novelty, gradually falling away like a garment, laid bare the eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“New friends . . . can often have a better time together than old friends.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution, than for counsel; and fitter for new projects, than for settled business.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas” Terry Pratchett, Good Omens
“it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.” Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days
“Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“The sun is new again, all day” Heraclitus, On Nature
“all things are admired, either because they are new, or because they are great.” Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
“You hate to tell new stuff to somebody around a hundred years old. They don't like to hear it.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.” Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“I suppose a woman is never in love with any one she has always known—ever since she can remember; as a man often is. It is always some new fellow who strikes a girl.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Even castles in the air can do with a fresh coat of paint.” Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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