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• The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a fault and boded no ill but thought well enough of themselves to repeat their presences.

  William H. Gass

  Night, Peaceful, Matter

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• Well, I have many models of Prius that got recalled, but I have a new model that didn't get recalled. This new model has an accelerator that goes wild, but only under certain conditions of cruise control. And I can repeat it over and over and over again--safely.

  Steve Wozniak

  Cruise, Prius, Certain

  "Wozniak cites 'scary' Prius acceleration problem" By Brooke Crothers, www.cnet.com. February 1, 2010.

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• Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Motivation, Opportunity

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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• The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Would Be, Want

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• Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

  Joseph Addison

  Moon, Listening, Stories

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.485

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• The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Past, Errors, Ideas

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.6, Crown Business

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• Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

  Joe Baca

  School, Special, Needs

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• I repeat that no greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the Church, upon all citizens of this republic and of neighboring republics than to protect the freedom vouchsafed by the Constitution of the United States.

  David O. McKay

  Responsibility, Church, United States

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• If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Two, Imagination

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• I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Passion, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. January 8, 2009.

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• History repeats itself.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Wisdom, History

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• Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowly in the direction they are being driven towards. If we make one point, we have a good chance that the audience will take the right direction; if we make several points, then the cows will scatter all over the field. The audience will lose interest and everyone will go back to the thoughts they interrupted in order to come to our lecture.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Moving, Science, Order

  Gian-Carlo Rota (2008). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.196, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I want to submit to you tonight that this country is not gospel-hardened; it is gospel-ignorant because most of its preachers are. And let me repeat this: the malady in this country is not liberal politicians, the root of socialism, Hollywood, or anything else; it is the so-called evangelical pastor, preacher, and evangelist of our day. That is where the malady is to be found.

  Paul Washer

  Country, Roots, Ignorant

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• We have taken the glorious gospel of our blessed God and reduced it down to four spiritual laws and five things God wants you to know, with a little superstitious prayer at the end; and if someone repeats it after us with enough sincerity, we popishly declare them to be born again. We've traded regeneration for decisionism.

  Paul Washer

  Spiritual, Prayer, Blessed

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• Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Past, Remember, Aphorism

  ARTHUR M> SCHLESINGER, JR. (1967). “THE BITTER HERITAGE VIETNAM AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY 1941-1966”

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• It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

  Jack Kornfield

  Past, Suffering, Would Be

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

  Will Durant

  Forever, Doomed, Knows

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• The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Past, Next

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New Self”, p.14, Random House

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• On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'

  Catfish Hunter

  Home, Yankees, Two

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• For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never to repeat. But to those who remain enthralled, it is a fabulous story of oustanding success and splendid achievement, by comparison with which Britain's 20th century records seems at best unimpressive, and often distinctly lacklustre.

  David Cannadine

  Achievement, Stories, Records

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• Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither its functioning for profit nor its dependence upon legally protected private property; but the presence of a Proletariat, that is of men possessing political freedom, but dispossessed of economic freedom, and existing in such large numbers in any community as to determine the tone of all that community.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Roots

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.108, TAN Books

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• We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Giving

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.29, IHS Press

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• Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Kings, Soldier, Atheism

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• Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Atheist, Heart, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Halmi (2002). “Opus Maximum”, p.236, Princeton University Press

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• When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence.

  Martin Gardner

  Successful, Atheism, Tests

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