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We're lost, but we're making good time.In US English, 'making good time' means 'making good progress' (not 'having fun').
If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.Grammatically, a contradiction. This adds to the impact of the remark.
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.'encyclopedia' sounds like something you could ride to school on. (That's the only reason this quote is notable.)

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Source text segment #11

- "It's like deja-vu, all over again."

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+10 | -1
A lovely redundancy!
+8
I think it's the case of an apparently obvious tautology or pleonasm. Whereas it could be quite enough to say: "It's like deja-vu! They are delivering home run after home run." Yogi unnecessarily repeats the same idea by using "all over again". The comic
+6
The French expression déjà vu has been in the English language for a long time now, so we know that it refers to a feeling of having already experienced the present situation, even if some don't know the original French meaning of the two words.
+5
Berra supposedly said "It's like deja vu all over again" while watching Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris hit back-to-back home runs over and over again in the 1960s.
+4
Deja vu is a feeling that you've seen or felt something before. Berra says that he has felt that way before (i.e. he has previously felt that he had felt something before), and he now feels that way again. It may look like a loop, but it isn't.
It’s like déjà vu, all over again. Implies nothing is new under the sun with a b it of a negative meaning. Все повторяется как в плохом кино.
-1
The statement itself is a paradox, resulting in an infinite loop. The same could be said about how Berra is feeling; he is having the same emotion (seemingly) an infinite number of times.
-3
The same deja-vu, over and over for ever. The dream of a baseball player.

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#1 - "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous." (29)

#2 - "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." (18)

#3 - "You can observe a lot just by watchin'." (15)

#4 - "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." (24)

#5 - "I can't concentrate when I'm thinking." (12)

#6 - "The future ain't what it used to be." (10)

#7 - "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did." (19)

#8 - "We're lost, but we're making good time." (12)

#9 - "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true." (8)

#10 - "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." (10)

#11 - "It's like deja-vu, all over again." (8)

#12 - "It ain't over till it's over." (11)

#13 - Mrs. Lindsay: "You certainly look cool." Yogi Berra: "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself." (10)

#14 - "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be." (22)