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.
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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with 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.
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
While we read history we make history.
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
The only reason to keep talking about history is if you are juxtaposing it with the world that we live in today, if you are learning something about our world by looking at the way they shaped their world.
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