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“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”
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“I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.”
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“Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.”
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“We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks... With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?”
Source : "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto". Book by Aaron Swartz, July 2008.
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“For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me,”
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“Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.”
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“Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.”
Source : Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.91, 谷月社
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“The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.”
Source : August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan
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“Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.”
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“The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.”
