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• It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Views, Technique, Needs

  FromRenoir's notebook, quoted in L Nochlin Impressionism and Post-Impressionism1874-1904 (1966).

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• Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.

  Michael Dirda

  Book, Writing, Self

  "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

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• Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language).

  Roland Barthes

  Adventure, Literature, World

  Roland Barthes (1994). “Roland Barthes”

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• I dont like to repeat myself as an actor.

  Joe Lando

  Actors

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• A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Memories, Heart, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 373, 1895.

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• To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, World, Reason

  "The World as Will and Representation". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. I, §68, 1819.

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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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• 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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• Service Over the years, the number one driver of our growth at Zappos has been repeat customers and word of mouth. Our philosophy has been to take most of the money we would have spent on paid advertising and invest it into customer service and the customer experience instead, letting our customers do the marketing for us through word of mouth.

  Tony Hsieh

  Philosophy, Years, Numbers

  "Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose". Book by Tony Hsieh, 2010.

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• The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

  Arthur Machen

  Fall, Trying, Saint

  Arthur Machen (2015). “The House of Souls: Horror Stories Collections”, p.71, 谷月社

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• At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A hell that allows you to see your loved ones, but not to touch them. A hell situated in America's boondocks, hundreds of miles away from most families. A white, rural hell, where most of the captives are black and urban. It is an American way of death.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Blessed, Government, White

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Sep 10, 2011

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• I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.

  Og Mandino

  Beach, Sweet, Memories

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope”, p.103, Bantam

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• Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

  Hosea Ballou

  Facts, Tradition, Prominent

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• When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

  Eric Ries

  Senior, Mistake, People

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.235, Crown Business

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• His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

  Unknown

  Lying, Believe, People

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• So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict.

  Valerie Estelle Frankel

  Fear, Heart, Patterns

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• History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pain, Heart, Events

  Sue Monk Kidd (2014). “The Invention of Wings: With Notes”, p.369, Penguin

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• The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.

  Yehuda Bauer

  Silly, Stories, Jew

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• I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

  Maxfield Parrish

  Girl, Art, Men

  Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

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• You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you no longer want it. Your imaginal act is as much a creative act as a physical one wherein man halts, shrinks and is blessed, for as man creates his own likeness, so does your imaginal act transform itself into the likeness of your assumption. If, however, you do not reach the point of satisfaction, repeat the action over and over again until you feel as though you touched it and virtue went out of you.

  Neville Goddard

  Blessed, Men, Creative

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• The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Sacrifice, Etc, Chess

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• Identify your personal limits and then push past them. Then set new barriers, and repeat the process, again and again and again.

  Nicole Haislett

  Past, Limits, Process

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• The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy - but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord's supper... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or at least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.

  Jean Guitton

  Catholic, Relax, Reform

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• Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.

  Lil Wayne

  Success, Father, Repetition

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