#repeat

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#compare #first #idiot #man #obviously

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process. ↗

— Ted W. Engstrom

#determined #expect #fail #learned #learning

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#definite #existence #geographical #geological #knowledge

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#doctrines #either #else #everybody #like

I'm trying to be very aware of not repeating myself. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#i #myself #repeating #trying #very

The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#already #clear #congress #dismantled #loud

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#always #america #boogie #easy #find

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#away #bird #call #destroyed #gone

We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that. ↗

— David Dinkins

#al #always #blamed #counseled #gets

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#accountable #exercise #exist #for the people #i