If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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 repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
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 is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.
Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.
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