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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

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

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

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

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

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

We can't let the past be forgotten.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

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