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• Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a minute., that sounds like this show.

  David Letterman

  Wall, Ideas, Waiting

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• The lead story on MSNBC was the news that there was nothing new to report in the Gary Condit story. So remember when there is nothing new to report, MSNBC will be the station not to report it first.

  Jay Leno

  News, Stories, Firsts

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• This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Rights, Voting, Childhood

  "Settled Law is on Side of Health Reform" by Stephanie Cutter, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 03, 2010.

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• What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

  Solomon

  Done, Sun, Ecclesiastes

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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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• Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Issues, Logic

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.339, Modern Library

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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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• The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.

  Bill Gates

  Death, Eye, Media

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Men, America, Years

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.24, Stanford University Press

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• Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.

  David Toop

  Perception, Problem, Unfamiliar

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• Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving, Curiosity, Degrees

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Writing, Years, Criticism

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• I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Discovery

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• The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

  Andre Gide

  Artist, Acclaim, Knows

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.306, Routledge

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• No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Awards, Matter

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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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• 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 humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

  Billy Graham

  Temptation, Firsts, Satan

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness ­­teenage suicide...all these Jewish sicknesses...that's nothing new. The Talmud's full of things like sex with boys and girls.

  David Duke

  Girl, Suicide, Running

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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 want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (1963). “Thoreau: people, principles, and politics”

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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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