It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
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.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
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