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The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

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

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.