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• Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

  Louis Nizer

  Reading, Book, Hands

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• Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.

  Alain de Botton

  Sublime, Bows, Ordinary

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• If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.

  Rumi

  Spring, Doe, Ifs

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• No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Greek, Training, May

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.

  Spider Robinson

  Land, Perception, Age

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• The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

  Ned Rorem

  Needs, Pieces, Hearing

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, May, Belief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.73

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• Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Believe, Men, Reflection

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.153

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• To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First, make the commitment to erase such words from your vocabulary. Next, if you slip and say a swear word or a substitute word, mentally reconstruct the sentence without the vulgarity or substitute word and repeat the new sentence aloud. Eventually you will develop a non-vulgar speech habit.

  L. Tom Perry

  Commitment, Vocabulary, Practice

  "Thy Speech Reveals Thee". L. Tom Perry's speech at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. August 1986.

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• You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Modesty, Acquire

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• We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Running, Hope, Fashion

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• I remember that grand word of the Katha Upanishad - Shraddhâ or marvellous faith. An instance of Shraddha can be found in the life of Nachiketâ. To preach the doctrine of Shraddha or genuine faith is the mission of my life. Let me repeat to you that this faith is one of the potent factors of humanity and of all religions. First, have faith in yourselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Humanity, Firsts

  Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 3”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

  Hakim Bey

  Watches, Idiot

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• If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Differences, Unprecedented

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• Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Country, Animal, Men

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• Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Couple, Team

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.

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• The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.

  John Keats

  Life, Men, Bears

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• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  Walter Alston

  Sports, Baseball, Psychology

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• When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Nature, Men

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• So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humility, Men, Long

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• Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company and performing for the long term. I know everyone says that, that sounds trite when I repeat it that way, but that is and has always been our attitude about our business. If we do the right things, the stock price will take care of itself, and our shareholders will be rewarded.

  James Sinegal

  Attitude, Business, Long

  "The CEO Behind Costco". Interview with David Gardner, www.fool.com. January 18, 2005.

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• Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .

  Andre Weil

  Time, Work, Math

  Andre Weil (2012). “The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician”, p.91, Birkhäuser

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• I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen.

  Milton Babbitt

  Believe, Home, People

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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• History repeats, but science reverberates.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Repeating History

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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• Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Moving, Knowledge

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