"Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them."
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"Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it."
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"Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally."
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"Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?"
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"I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all."
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"If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring."
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"Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times."
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"I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm."
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"You don't want to repeat yourself for one. You don't want to fall into the clichés for another. And you don't want to be licentious really. You want to be descriptive, if you can be. And you're not setting out to arouse anybody."
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"What do markets do? They consolidate, they breakout, they extend, they overextend, they back and fill, they consolidate, and repeat the process. That's all you need to know about the markets."
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"Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite."
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"Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more."
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"Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally."
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"Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost."
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"History never repeats itself, historians do."
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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."
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"History, we know, is apt to repeat itself."
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"Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?"
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"I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it."
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"History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes."
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