#repeats

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

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#cure #everyone #faults #fear #his

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you? ↗

— Toby Young

#another #dinner #dinner party #else #everyone

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#historians #history #history repeats itself #itself #other

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. ↗

— Robert Collier

#believe #comes #dominating #false #mind

There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it. ↗

— Victor Cruz

#get #gotta #life #only #repeats

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#books #emotions #master #presents #repeats

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#colours #idea #itself #match #never

I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis. ↗

— Bill Rodgers

#believe #courses #develop #either #hill

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#experience #happens #history #history repeats itself #how