Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: housework repetition sisyphus
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
Adolf HitlerTags: propaganda big-lie repetition
Repetition opens doors, you know?
Tim LucasTags: magic repetition
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it.
(Young India 1924-1926)
Tags: truth error repetition
It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a dizzying proliferation of citations) that it gains a subversive power rather than remain a mere dependent (and thus conservative) form of social discourse. Reversal plays a double role in this novel (MONSIEUR VENUS), for it is not only a formal strategy bearing on citation, but itself a citation as well; one more cliché mobilized from the fin-de-siecle reserve.
Janet BeizerTags: literature language decadence repetition cliche decadent monsieur-venus rachilde reversal
In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.
Robert HughesTags: loneliness hell modernism repetition duchamp
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.
Dawn PowellTags: humanity human-nature tragedy comedy repetition
Being able to be repeated controllably
is one key element in risk management.
Tags: repetition risk-management controllability
Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.
But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.
Tags: mankind ignorance doom remember repetition prehistory horrible
He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
Pittacus LoreTags: wisdom history understanding repetition doomed-to-repeat-it
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