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.
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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
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.
It seems like people don't learn from the past.
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.