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Quotes About Repetition

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
~ Alan Cohen
History doesn't pass the dishes again.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.
~ George Eliot
If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?
~ Jodi Picoult
History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.
~ Mark Cuban
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
~ Clarence Darrow
My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.
~ Jamie Dimon
My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.
~ Chris Cornell
I've watched Clueless as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.
~ Krysten Ritter
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
~ Bud Abbott
For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?
~ C. S. Lewis
Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
~ Stephen King
The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.
~ Cecil Rhodes
Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bullshit before.
~ Tommy Cooper
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
~ David Nicholls
I washed mud off of mud.
~ Steven Wright
You say you're sick and tired of hearing about me? I've got news for you: I'M sick and tired of hearing about me.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.
~ Steven Wright
I am astounded at how long it takes to discover... for the first time, the things I have learned... over and over again all my life.
~ Portia Nelson
Leo, " Jason said, "you're weird.""Yeah, you tell me that a lot." Leo grinned. "But if you don't remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes...!
~ Rick Riordan
...I suppose clichés wouldn't be clichés if they weren't based on some sort of tediously predictable truth.
~ Lucy Ivison, Lobsters
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school
~ Josh Stern