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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

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.

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

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

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