I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.
History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
History never repeats itself in the same way.
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
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.