#repetition

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. ↗

— Norman Lear

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Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained. ↗

— Archer John Porter Martin

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Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity. ↗

— Ikue Mori

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I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

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Happiness is the longing for repetition. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over. ↗

— Graham Nelson

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Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition. ↗

— Nile Rodgers

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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. ↗

— William Safire

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