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• The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.

  Roy Andries De Groot

  Food, Years, Cooking

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• It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

  Diane Ackerman

  Brain, Essentials, Attention

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.239, W. W. Norton & Company

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• History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.

  Claude Bowers

  Mistake, Writing, Past

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• The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.

  Martin Filler

  Artist, Design, Temptation

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• The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own

  Jeff Allen

  Dance, Practice, Muscles

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• The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty-"the kingdom"-not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form man.

  Hugh Miller

  Future, Science, Men

  Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed”, p.178

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• Contrology (Pilates) is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. Through Contrology you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then through proper repetition of its exercises you gradually and progressively acquire that natural rhythm and coordination associated with all your subconscious activities.

  Joseph Pilates

  Exercise, Mind, Body

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Real, Numbers, Mere

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.86, Penguin UK

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• I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Personality, Variation

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• The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Facts, Essentials, Variety

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.60, Macmillan

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• The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

  Robert Frost

  Positive, Ocean, Heart

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• To be honest, I didn't have any expectations. I really didn't know what to expect. What I was most nervous about was the repetition of doing it over and over and over again. Does that get stale? How do you keep it fresh? Then I realized it's always new because you get to keep playing the next moment.

  Taissa Farmiga

  Expectations, Doe, Next

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So when we're told to "move on" or "let go," we should take a look at who is saying it and why, and when we see repetition happening it's worth trying to understand it before attempting to shut it down.

  Laura Mullen

  Letting Go, Moving, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are blurred). I'm very interested in "repetition and revision" (to use Suzan Lori-Parks's phrase) and in the culture's desire to loop or repeat.

  Laura Mullen

  Book, Desire, Batteries

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.

  John Dieterich

  Variation, Elements, Realizing

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because DJing you hear beats, like "boom, boom, boom, bap, bap." You know hip hop, house, techno. So how do you translate between those electronic motifs and the motifs of the landscape itself? That is what I wanted to go for.

  DJ Spooky

  House, Hip Hop, Landscape

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.

  Alfred Smee

  Success, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.128

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• You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

  John Irving

  Eye, Mirrors, Views

  John Irving (1996). “Trying to Save Piggy Sneed”, p.341, Arcade Publishing

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