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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.