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• If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.

  Michael Sims

  Fire, Creating, Sun

  Michael Sims (2008). “Apollo's Fire: A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day”, p.52, Penguin

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• I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally, excepting for what I do for my private satisfaction or leave to come out after me. For I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new or to become a slave to defend it.

  Isaac Newton

  Philosophy, Science, Men

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• Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Play, Tennis

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.

  Hari Kunzru

  New York, Likes, Happens

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• It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

  James Richardson

  Opposites, Rivers, Smell

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• When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Boys, Two

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• Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Bible Thumpers, Sun, Nothing New Under The Sun

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• And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Doors, House, Unity

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• There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

  Robert Plant

  Sun, Paint, Nothing New Under The Sun

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• I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.

  Ken Wilber

  Fun, Work, Writing

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• Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they’re played out.

  Vaclav Smil

  Boys, Iphone, Color

  "This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading". Interview with Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. November 25, 2013.

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• The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Creativity, Years

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

  Joseph Simmons

  Past, Rapper, African American

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• I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always deal with. I guess everybody does - that existential crisis of human condition. It's nothing new. But I'd love to come across something that really made me believe in something.

  Conor Oberst

  Believe, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Poverty, Resources

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.86, Beacon Press

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• I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Discovery, Century

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• I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.

  Henry Ford

  Years, Car, Connections

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• Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

  James Mattis

  Military, Real, Mean

  "General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Email About Being 'Too Busy To Read' Is A Must-Read" by Geoffrey Ingersoll, www.businessinsider.com. May 09, 2013.

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• There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Rome

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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• I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.

  Nick Lowe

  Lonely, Glasses, Sound

  Song: I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass, Album: Jesus of Cool

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• There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Egypt, Usual, Revolution

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• I'm not running, I'm not planning on running, and I've got nothing new on that story.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Stories, Planning

  "Mitt Romney Is Probably Running for President. Here Are All the Times He Said He Wouldn’t" by Sam Brodey, www.motherjones.com. January 12, 2015.

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• No failure means no risk, which means nothing new

  Richard Branson

  Mean, Risk, No Failure

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2013

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