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• He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Mind, Imitation, Resolve

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.158

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• The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my next, method. I do not speak it in vanity, but simply record the fact, that I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion. I will freely add, that I was not insensible to the late John Jacob Astor's good opinion.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Vanity, Names

  Herman Melville (2006). “Bartleby the Scrivener: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mistake, School, Past

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.308, Hoover Press

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• What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Conflict, Scope, Scales

  "Stay at home to avoid Saddam's fate, Rumsfeld tells Iraqis" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2003.

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• For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

  Louise Hay

  Needs, Patterns, Habit

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

  Winston Churchill

  Reflection, Orange, Keys

  Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For fear of acting like a coward or of being boorish. I repeat, I admire the fact that, those persons have, through human respect, more courage than Christians and priests have, through charity or through their good intentions.

  Vincent de Paul

  Leadership, Christian, Country

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's not that entirely conscious. Somebody tells me a story or, you know, repeats an anecdote that somebody else told them and I just feel like I have to write it down so I don't forget - that means for me, something made it fiction-worthy. Interesting things never happen to me, so maybe two or three times when they do, I have to use them, so I write them down.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Mean, Writing, Thinking

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• I'm a single father, I don't like to be away from my son. So I'll go out, make a film and come back. Repeat. And it's worked out very well for the last 11 years.

  Dean Cain

  Father, Son, Years

  "Dean Cain on his prolific TV movie career, including tonight's 'A Mile in His Shoes'". Interview with Christian Blauvelt, ew.com. September 25, 2011.

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• My agent says that I'm a "repeat business guy." If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.

  Dean Cain

  Attitude, Team, Player

  "Dean Cain on his prolific TV movie career, including tonight's 'A Mile in His Shoes'". Interview with Christian Blauvelt, ew.com. September 25, 2011.

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• All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Mean, Entanglement, Traps

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• You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

  Toby Young

  Party, Self, Laughing

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• One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.

  Elmer Bernstein

  Successful, Want, Next

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• I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.

  Steve Burns

  Smart, Blue, Lessons

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• We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt.

  Stafford Cripps

  Opportunity, Government, Self

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• In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.

  Christopher Guest

  Real, Writing, Space

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• And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Security Systems, Years, Subsidies

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• But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Lying, Lasts, Film

  "Paul Thomas Anderson strikes cinematic oil". www.today.com. January 3, 2008.

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• In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Science, Eggs, Organization

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• We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

  Todd Gitlin

  Movement, May, Awful

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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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.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Three, Apocalyptic, Single Word

  "Briefwechsel". "Briefwechsel" by Johann Georg Hamann, 1955-1975.

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• I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.

  Maureen Johnson

  Motivation, Book, People

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• It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

  Norah Jones

  Kids, Play, Albums

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• The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

  Leonard Maltin

  Thinking, Years, Lasts

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• I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Want, Revelations, Something New

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