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• Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attention, Opponents, Pay

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.135, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Seduction, Hundred, Ought

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.213, Modern Library

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• A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.

  Cesare Pavese

  Decision, Action, Reason

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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• Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.

  Ivan Illich

  Frustration, Affirmation, Rich

  Ivan Illich, Lionel Rubinoff (1971). “Tradition and Revolution”, Macmillan of Canada ; New York : St. Martin's Press

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• Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it existed as anything but a logical construction; and what imagist found it possible to go on writing imagist poetry? A number of poets have stopped writing entirely; others, like recurring decimals, repeat the novelties they commeced with, each time less valuably than before. And there are surrealist poetry, and political poetry, and all the othe refuges of the indigent.

  Randall Jarrell

  Believe, Writing, Two

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "A Note on Poetry" (p. 50), 1980.

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• One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.

  Christopher Alexander

  Block, Thinking, Giving

  "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.

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• As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.

  Max Beckmann

  Blessed, Philosophical, Eye

  Max Beckmann, Guggenheim Museum Soho (1996). “Max Beckmann in exile”, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum

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• All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Life, Age, Born

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.136, Lotus Press

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• India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Light, Self, People

  "Rewriting Indian History". Book by François Gautier, p. 158, 2003.

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• A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Mind Love, Stories, Kind

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Forever, Unity, Genius

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• In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final . Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, War, Data

  Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”

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• Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.

  Eugene Delacroix

  People, Trying, Looks

  "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix: A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, Cornell University Press, February 25, 1852 (p. 152), 1980.

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• Every object in nature is impressed with God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object, be it pebble or pearl, weed or rose, the flower-spangled sward beneath, or the star-spangled sky above, not a worm or an angel, a drop of water or a boundless ocean, in which intelligence may not discern, and piety adore, the providence of Him who took our nature that He might save our souls.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Weed, Nature, Stars

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 427, 1895.

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• As far as France is concerned, we are ready to envisage everything that can be done under UNSCR 1441. [...] But I repeat that every possibility offered by the present resolution must be explored, that there are a lot of them and they still leave us with a lot of leeway when it comes to ways of achieving the objective of eliminating any weapons of mass destruction which may exist in Iraq. I'd like nevertheless to note that, as things stand at the moment, I have, to my knowledge, no indisputable proof in this sphere.

  Jacques Chirac

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Done

  Statement made during a joint press conference, Paris, February 10, 2003.

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• I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.

  Tre Cool

  Four, Drummer, I Can

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• Thus, in a crucial way, the Kansas hearings repeat the pattern set by the Scopes Trial, which has been repeated many times since, namely, evolutionists escaped critical scrutiny by not having to undergo cross-examination. In this case, they accomplished the feat by boycotting the hearings. I therefore await the day when the hearings are not voluntary but involve subpoenas that compel evolutionists to be deposed and interrogated at length on their views.

  William A. Dembski

  Kansas, Views, Trials

  "The Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth out of Darwinists" by William Dembski, uncommondescent.com. May 11, 2005.

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• History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

  John Dean

  Doe, Impression

  Comparing the presidential styles of Richard Nixon and George W Bush. Quoted in Worse than Watergate (2004).

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• If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Angel, Dark, Keys

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 5, p. 177, 1955 - 1975.

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• Some of these guys are so violent that it is hard for witnesses to come forward, and they get involved in repeat criminal activities, so it is unfortunate that they had to die, but it did kind of end the cycle that we were struggling with.

  Ray Nagin

  Struggle, Guy, Criminals

  "Mayor: Crime Part of New Orleans `Brand'". The Associated Press, www.washingtonpost.com. August 10, 2007.

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• If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

  Jose Saramago

  Pigs, Childhood, Littles

  Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.

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• Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?

  Alfie Kohn

  Essence, Goal, Perspective

  Alfie Kohn (2013). “No Contest: The Case Against Competition”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

  John S. Hall

  Father, Men, Lasts

  "Song: 'My Father' ('The Psychopathology of Everyday Life')". 2003.

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• Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature.

  Gary Chapman

  Summer, Moving, Fall

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• Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.

  Ba Jin

  Museums, Heaven, Revolution

  "Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese". Book by Khoon Choy Lee, 2005.

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