Repetition Quotes
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Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.
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Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.
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the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
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Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
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The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
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It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others
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the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.
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Repetition yields constants. Constants create cultures.
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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
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The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.
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Repetition is the mother of skill.
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The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
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All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas . . . Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd.
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Repetition is the mother of all learning.
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A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
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Think about how often—before cell phones, before any kind of caller ID—you answered the landline as a child and had to have an exchange, however brief, with aunts or uncles or family friends. Even if it was that five-second check-in, How are you doing, how is school, is your mom around—it meant periodic real-time vocal contact with an extended community, which, through repetition, it reinforced.
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Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.
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Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
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All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.
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Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
