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Quotes About Repetition

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
~ Plato
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
~ Alberto Moravia
If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.
~ Norbert Wiener
here we were again , always saying good-bye
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Too many good things all seem the same after a while.
~ Amy Tan
Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.
~ Jonathan Lethem
For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.
~ Ken Weber
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
~ Robert Rodriguez
Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.
~ Royston Drenthe
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.
~ Glenn Greenwald
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
~ Ernest Dimnet
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
~ Irwin Shaw
Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again.
~ Hanley Ramirez
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?
~ A. A. Milne
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Just because it had happened before didn't mean it wasn't serious. It didn't mean he didn't need them.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
What we learn from History is that no one learns from History
~ Otto von Bismarck
We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.
~ J. Cole
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
~ Sydney J. Harris
History is just new people making old mistakes.
~ Sigmund Freud