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Because one of the curious things about writing is that it doesn't matter how perfect you try and get it, that you never quite get the sentence right, or there are things that you miss and, you know, you have work repeated a couple of pages later...

Quote by Al Alvarez about literature, couple, contentment, things, writing, perfection, rightness, work

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Quote by Joe Baca about criminals, heads, education, school, need

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything...

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Quote by Douglas Adams about normality, contentment

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it....

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

Quote by Pearl Bailey about trap, past, contentment

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy, habits

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

Quote by Richard Ernst about intention, career, present, chance

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of...

Quote by James Joyce about soul, being, good, good luck, love

If you forget, mom will remind you of all your mistakes...

If you forget, mom will remind you of all your mistakes so you don't repeat them.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about mother, contentment

The louder you speak and the more you repeat something is...

The louder you speak and the more you repeat something is inversely proportional to the amount of information taken in.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

If you watch a TV show only twice during the season, the...

If you watch a TV show only twice during the season, the second time will be a repeat of the first.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about season, time, contentment

Never argue, repeat your assertion.

Never argue, repeat your assertion.

Quote by Robert Owen

I have said and I repeat, at the risk of being...

I have said and I repeat, at the risk of being sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about risk, history, war, being, world

The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale...

The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.

Quote by James Cash Penney about customers

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.

Quote by Roger Penrose about idea, use, contentment

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to...

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Quote by Walt Disney about success, things

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Quote by Simon Wiesenthal about history, criminals, man

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His...

Quote by Giuseppe Mazzini about god, contentment, teachers, smile, humanity, intelligence, name, law, country, people

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Quote by Karl Marx about history, tragedy

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

Quote by Jonathan Kellerman about books, work, world

In the eyes of the future we are the past that should not...

In the eyes of the future we are the past that should not be repeated.

Quote by Marius Torok about future, eyes, past

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