This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
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.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.