Quotes About Repetition

la sola idea de repetir una relación como la que tenía con su madre la llenaba de espanto.

What happened once, will happen again...but in a different form. To become a future-teller, one needs only to study history.

When we look back on the decades of our life we see that the seemingly insignificant things we do over and over actually weave the pattern of our lives.

It's the 'big lie' theory: tell a big lie, and tell it often—and attack anyone who calls it a lie.

The problem here is a very general one: anytime you copy code with cut and paste, you essentially double your maintenance effort in the future.

Think about it: because we copied the original version, if we ever have to change the way raises are given (and we probably will), we'll have to change the code in two places, not one. Although this is a small and artificial example, it's also representative of a universal issue — anytime you're tempted to program by copying code this way, you probably want to look for a better approach.

From 1836 to 1868, only one candidate was elected to the presidency more than once—Abraham Lincoln.

journalism has become an overwhelmingly progressive enterprise, and the disingenuousness with which it is mostly denied, defended, or even celebrated often leads to a pack mentality, groupthink, repetition, and even propaganda presented as news.

the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

Suppose your were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.

I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes.

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?

Clearly, this was another thing I needed to add to the: 'repetitive cycle of things that were constantly happening in my life' list, which currently contained fainting and my ability to find trouble.

Life is a circle. It spins you around.

Repetition will be repeated

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.