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• The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

  William Ralph Inge

  Spring, Jealous, Men

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• we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

  Paula Fox

  Country, Ideas, Next

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• Each moment life is new and you have to respond from your inner newness, you have to be available to the new as the new. And you have to respond, not out of your knowledge, but out of your present awareness. Only then life works, otherwise life stops working. If your life is not working, remember, it is the ego that is hindering, the mechanical has encroached upon the organic. To be free from the mechanical is to be in God, because it is to be in the organic unity of existence.

  Rajneesh

  Ego, Unity, Remember

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• from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Past, Alcohol, United States

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• It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of works. True spirituality is not a superhuman religiosity; it is simply true humanity released from bondage to sin and renewed by the Holy Spirit. This is given to us as we grasp by faith the full content of Christ's redemptive work: freedom from the guilt and power of sin, and newness of life through the indwelling and outpouring of his Spirit.

  Richard Lovelace

  Spiritual, Roots, Discipline

  "Dynamics of Spiritual Life".

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• At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Life certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Rain, Men, Inquiry

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• In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

  Corita Kent

  Carpe Diem, Giants, Would Be

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• We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always

  John Muir

  Memories, Views, Cells

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.8, Great West Books

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• When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children.

  Thomas Merton

  Children, Autumn, Night

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.

  Fred Astaire

  Fashion, Wall, Squares

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• In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Social, Accepting, Process

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.38, Rowman Altamira

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• New things are always ugly.

  Willa Cather

  Ugly, New Things

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

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• L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.

  Kim Gordon

  Pride

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

  Madame de Stael

  Doctrine, World, Fancy

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• I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term fashion is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.

  Narciso Rodriguez

  Fashion, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Rachel Feinstein, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 3, 2013.

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• Unicorns are not to be forgiven." The magician felt himself growing giddy with jealousy, not only of the touch but of something like a secret that was moving between Molly and the unicorn. "Unicorns are for beginnings," he said, "for innocence and purity, for newness. Unicorns are for young girls." Molly was stroking the unicorn's throat as timidly as though she were blind. She dried her grimy tears on the white mane. "You don't know much about unicorns," she said.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Girl, Moving, White

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• Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Taste, Tongue

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.107

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• It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.

  Isak Dinesen

  Ideas, Doors, Modesty

  Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (1987). “On Modern Marriage and Other Observations”

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• He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

  John Piper

  Age, Vices, Novelty

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• What you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it, because they think that it is only style that they are talking about, when what they are talking about is the attempt to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.It is an awfully lonesome business, and, as you know, I never wanted you to go into it, but if you are going into it at all, I want you to go into it knowing the sort of things that took me years to learn.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Talking, Years

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.512, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.

  Leslie Jamison

  Writing, Thinking, Topics

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If you are tired of one activity you can try something else, change your job, take your custom to another restaurant.

  Jan Morris

  Jobs, Tired, Ideas

  Jan Morris (2009). “Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere”, p.14, Da Capo Press

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• I think maybe that as time goes by there will be more newness but because I was part of what it was before it's not like coming into a house and saying it's all about me. I don't feel like that. It really is all about McQueen and the things that he was trying to say and about moving that forward, making it relevant, making it desirable, making it into what people want to wear.

  Sarah Burton

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Drunk, Childhood

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