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Novelty is not the feeling of encountering something new, but feeling the recognition of what we were waiting for.
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Novelty is always but oblivion if there is nothing new under the sun, as Soloman held, and if all knowledge is but remembrance, as Plato holds.
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Novelty is always impossible before it is possible. The history of man is filled with ideas which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared.
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