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• I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.

  Michael Shannon

  Real, Focus, Variation

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.

  William E. Burrows

  Believe, Technology, Agency

  William E. Burrows (2010). “This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age”, p.560, Modern Library

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• How much of you is repetition?

  Sixto Rodriguez

  Unanswered Questions

  Song: Crucify Your Mind, Album: Cold Fact, 1970

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• What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Peace, Mean, Endless

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• People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  People, Feds, Fed Up

  "Q&A: Jean Paul Gaultier". Interview with Eric Wilson, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. October 26, 2007.

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• Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.

  Fiona Shaw

  Way, Theater, Exciting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Nature, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2745, Delphi Classics

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• It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Circles, Ideas, Squares

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• The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Simple, Simplicity, Doctrine

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• All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Patterns, Next, Moments

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2007). “Sixty Days and Counting”, p.35, Spectra

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• We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monotonous war against our own impending deaths, against time that turns children into that other, lesser species: adults. We take pictures because we know we will forget. We will forget the week, the day, the hour. We will forget when we were happiest. We take pictures out of pride, a desire to have the best of ourselve preserved. We fear that we will die and others will not know we lived.

  Michelle Richmond

  Children, War, Pride

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• And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

  Milan Kundera

  Happiness, Running, Time

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• Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Men, Silence

  Emma Goldman (1983). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Schocken

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• Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.

  Harlan Ellison

  Fighting, Past, Years

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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• The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Reality, Imagination

  Michel Foucault (1998). “Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology”, p.106, The New Press

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• The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.

  John Stott

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  John Stott (2013). “Balanced Christianity”, p.68, InterVarsity Press

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• Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy.

  Julian Barnes

  Religious, Numbers, Despair

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.

  Hugh Prather

  Life, Mistake, Would Be

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• An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Book, Teaching

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.

  Walker Percy

  Past, Order, Usual

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?
  Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.
  You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

  Ouida

  Beautiful, Song, Prayer

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• My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely only a few thousand successful practitioners in the world today. Macro trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Divorce, Successful, Emotional

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• The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

  Teresa of Avila

  Christian, Prayer, Caring

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1995). “The Interior Castle”, Harpercollins

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• Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

  James Surowiecki

  Song, Pops, Thrive

  "Paying to Play". www.newyorker.com. July 12, 2004.

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• History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

  William Graham Sumner

  Stories, Tiresome

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.27, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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