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  • Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

    "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.
  • Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly, for though we have tread upon the surface of the moon, we have remained bigots and arrogant egotists. Walk softly, for history repeats its self with little provacation.

  • A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!

  • Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

  • Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

    Julian Barnes (2010). “A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters”, p.241, Random House
  • If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.317, e-artnow
  • History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.

    "BlackBerry CEO calls Apple's iPhone user interface outdated" by Katie Marsal, appleinsider.com. March 18, 2013.
  • History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

    Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1238, e-artnow
  • History repeats itself.

  • Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

  • I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and weak.

  • Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.55, Criss Jami
  • History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

    Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

    Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.107, Canongate Books
  • The saying goes that history repeats itself; personal histories do the same. We can gather the lessons of others' lives through observation, conversation, and by seeking advice. We can use the automatic system to find out who the happy people are, and the reflective system to evaluate how they got to be that way. Pursuing happiness need not be a lonely endeavor. In fact, throwing in our lot with others may be a very good way of coping with the disappointments of choice.

  • Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.

  • We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

    "In the Footsteps of Achebe: Enter Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Interview with Ike Anya, www.africanwriter.com. October 15, 2005.
  • The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

  • History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

    Song: Beyond Belief, Album: Imperial Bedroom, 1982
  • History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

    "Mike Colter: On Meditation, Good Writing, and Passion Projects". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

    "The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm".
  • The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.

  • It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

    "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.
  • History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

  • We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with long standing roots that were flamed when we invaded Iraq in 2003. Any lasting solution must be political and take into account respect for the entire Iraqi population.

  • Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  • If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

  • All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

  • Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

    James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press
  • History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

    "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon".
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