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• I am learning. I'm a slow learner. I repeat myself three times, relationship wise.

  Sheryl Crow

  Relationship, Wise, Three

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• He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

  Khalil Gibran

  Book, Knowledge, Doe

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• We need to make everyone more aware of the benefits of empowering women. Then I think we can succeed faster. Because it's one thing to achieve success, and another to repeat success. That's the job of a leader. Promoting women leadership and creating a more level playing field is a huge enabler to repeat success.

  Muhtar Kent

  Jobs, Thinking, Creating

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• Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.

  Frank Shorter

  Recovery, Race, Track

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• There is no reason to repeat bad history.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Inspirational, Reason, No Reason

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• Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Tears, Repentance

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons on Sin, Salvation, and Service”

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• You may feel burdened by worry, fear, or doubt. To you and to all of us, I repeat a wonderful and certain truth: #God's light is real. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound. It can illuminate the path before us and lead us through the darkest night into the promise of a new dawn.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Real, Night, Light

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• Study the hurtful patterns of your life.
  Then don't repeat them.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hurtful, Patterns, Study

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• It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

  Joseph Addison

  Queens, Taken, Letters

  'The Spectator' no. 221, 13 November 1711.

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• The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

  Paul Fussell

  Wise, Travel, Trying

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• You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, May, Cents

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• Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Broken, Remember, Exception

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• Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

  Oscar Wilde

  May, Lost

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.223, Wordsworth Editions

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• Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning democracy.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Media, People

  Interview with Stefan Sirucek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2010.

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• For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round.
  Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Circles, Phases

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids.

  David Von Drehle

  Book, Kids, Cutting

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• I don't want to repeat myself. I'm not going to play a guy like Allen in Happiness again any time soon because I did that and I don't want to tarnish or dilute that film by doing it again, maybe less well.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Want

  "Tales of Hoffman" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2000.

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• I won't take time to repeat all the obvious benefits of physical exercise but will only underscore the well-attested fact that a program of regular exercise increases one's efficiency in every facet of life, including the depth and restfulness of sleep. And the time taken can be minimal; just a few minutes of calisthenics and running in place in one's room or jogging around the yard or block is often sufficient. Exercising doesn't take time. It saves time. Still, few consistently do it.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Block, Taken

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• That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

  Amy Poehler

  Motto, Should, Please

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!

  Frank Bartleman

  God, Christian, Fall

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• 'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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• Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.

  Heinz Fischer

  Change, Past, Thinking

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• You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

  Herbie Hancock

  Change, Keys, Giving

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• If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up the same neat writing of the moves, the same methodical examination of variations, but at a quicker rate.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Moving, Writing

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• I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.

  King Hussein I

  Hurt, Past, Long

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