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“I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Pay Attention Pay Attention Repeats Destined

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.”

Pay Attention Opinion Opponents Repeats Fancy

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.”

Art Sometimes Poetry Purpose Artist Space Attention Media Emotional Response Operations Performing Repeats Behaviour Provoking Time And Space Variation Simplify Emotional Response

Author:Ellen Dissanayake

“If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.”

Ifs Should Mind Firsts Ideas Together Simple Attention Progress Reflection Should Have Add Repeats Sensations Simple Ideas

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding