Novelty

(172 votes)   Always something new, seldom something good.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(163 votes)   The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(124 votes)   We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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