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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.

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

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.

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

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

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

So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.

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

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.