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• What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.

  John Murphy

  Unique, Chains, Function

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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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• Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it. So we have to take ourselves where we are as materialists, and must take the help of matter and go on slowly until we become real spiritualists, and feel ourselves spirits, understand the spirit, and find that this world which we call the infinite is but a gross external form of that world which is behind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Men, Talking

  Swami Vivekananda (1966). “Complete Works”

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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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• 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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• All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.

  John Mellencamp

  Thinking, Information, Can Do

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.

  Thomas Sowell

  Education, Years, People

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.403, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!

  Steve Martin

  Unique, People, Laughing

  "A Wild and Crazy Guy". Comedy album by Steve Martin, 1978.

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• Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Pain, Reality, Men

  "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1940.

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• History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

  George Eliot

  Costumes, Incidents, Knows

  George Eliot (189?). “Scenes of clerical life”

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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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• Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attention, Opponents, Pay

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.135, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Seduction, Hundred, Ought

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.213, Modern Library

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• Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it existed as anything but a logical construction; and what imagist found it possible to go on writing imagist poetry? A number of poets have stopped writing entirely; others, like recurring decimals, repeat the novelties they commeced with, each time less valuably than before. And there are surrealist poetry, and political poetry, and all the othe refuges of the indigent.

  Randall Jarrell

  Believe, Writing, Two

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "A Note on Poetry" (p. 50), 1980.

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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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• All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Life, Age, Born

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.136, Lotus Press

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• India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Light, Self, People

  "Rewriting Indian History". Book by François Gautier, p. 158, 2003.

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• Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.

  Eugene Delacroix

  People, Trying, Looks

  "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix: A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, Cornell University Press, February 25, 1852 (p. 152), 1980.

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• As far as France is concerned, we are ready to envisage everything that can be done under UNSCR 1441. [...] But I repeat that every possibility offered by the present resolution must be explored, that there are a lot of them and they still leave us with a lot of leeway when it comes to ways of achieving the objective of eliminating any weapons of mass destruction which may exist in Iraq. I'd like nevertheless to note that, as things stand at the moment, I have, to my knowledge, no indisputable proof in this sphere.

  Jacques Chirac

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Done

  Statement made during a joint press conference, Paris, February 10, 2003.

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• I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.

  Tre Cool

  Four, Drummer, I Can

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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. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Angel, Dark, Keys

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 5, p. 177, 1955 - 1975.

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• Some of these guys are so violent that it is hard for witnesses to come forward, and they get involved in repeat criminal activities, so it is unfortunate that they had to die, but it did kind of end the cycle that we were struggling with.

  Ray Nagin

  Struggle, Guy, Criminals

  "Mayor: Crime Part of New Orleans `Brand'". The Associated Press, www.washingtonpost.com. August 10, 2007.

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• Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?

  Alfie Kohn

  Essence, Goal, Perspective

  Alfie Kohn (2013). “No Contest: The Case Against Competition”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

  John S. Hall

  Father, Men, Lasts

  "Song: 'My Father' ('The Psychopathology of Everyday Life')". 2003.

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• I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.

  Lyle Lovett

  Jobs, Mind, Records

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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