"Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains."
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"To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good."
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"And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]"
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"There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness."
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"If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind."
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"Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty."
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"Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese."
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"We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things."
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"Human nature is fond of novelty."
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"We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us."
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"This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine."
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"No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power."
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"We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming."
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"Human nature craves novelty."
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"Man naturally yearns for novelty."
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"Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles."
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"Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful."
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"Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account."
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"Novelties please less than they impress."
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"We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness."
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