“No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done”

“"There's nothing new under the sun": that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun. And the poem you created is also new under the sun, since no one wrote it down before you. And all your readers are also new under the sun, since those who lived before you couldn't read your poem. And that cypress under which you're sitting hasn't been growing since the dawn of time. It came into being by way of another cypress similar to yours, but not exactly the same.”

“That’s how ideas are generated. Unusual combinations, mixing old and new, stimulate original ideas, that is, ideas with origins.”

“Didn't I once observe that there is nothing new under the sun?”

“Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings”

“The army and navy had plenty of bad powder and worthless vessels in fact, material for half a dozen powder-boats if necessary. I don't know whether the general claimed the powder-boat as an original idea, but there is nothing new under the sun, and such a means of attack has been employed before.”

“There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to saving humanity. History always repeats itself.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“The mind that opens to a new idea, Never comes back to its original size.”

“A man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”