"History repeats itself and that's just how it goes."
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"One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish."
"History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history."
"History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions."
"You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed."
"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."
"If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience."
"It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating."
"I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself."
"It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable."
"Never repeat old grievances."
"I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!"
"A pregnancy is a marvelous moment that I would love to repeat and repeat."
"Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post."
"You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time."
"To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies."
"Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them."
"Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it."
"Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally."
"Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?"
"I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all."