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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.


George Santayana

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well,...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
ERROL MORRIS Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Those who cannot remember the past are damned to repeat it
GEORGE SANTAYANA History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. ...
JOHN BUCHAN Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. when experience is not retained, ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD Those who disregard the past are bound to repeat it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient...
HENRY HAZLITT Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember ...
DAVID HACKETT FISCHER The earth has its music for those who will listen
REGINALD VINCENT HOLMES Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
LEMONY SNICKET Those who do remember it (the past) will find new ways to screw up
CHARLES WOLFE Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat i...
JOHN THORN Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite corre...
LAWRENCE LESSIG Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. —Bene Gesserit Coda
FRANK HERBERT Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school
JOSH STERN Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute th...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there rem...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Life tends not to forgive those who intentionally repeat errors in judgement.
FAISAL KHOSA The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme
MARK TWAIN You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
BRUCE WILLIS Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.
CHARLES WOLFE It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
EUGENE JARECKI People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power....
SWAMI RAMDAS Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
MIKE HUYBENSZ Those who cannot admit making stupid mistakes are destined to repeat them over and over.
BILL PURDIN You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
BRUCE WILLIS We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Great relationships do not depend on who you find, they depend on who you are.
JEFFREY FRY Those who do not look upon themselves as a link connecting the past with the future do not perform t...
DANIEL WEBSTER Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The airline industry has a horrendous history in Chapter 11. Those who do not learn from history are...
ANTHONY SABINO In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep ove...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are ca...
C. JOYBELL C. He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
PITTACUS LORE The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholic...
BILL CLINTON ...some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.
SUZANNE YOUNG Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II God will never entrust money to those who are not ready for it and those who do not the laws of mone...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regre...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regre...
SWAMI SIVANANDA I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same ...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
HELEN DUNMORE Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking l...
JAY TRACHMAN It's a lot of money, but we are determined to do this, to remember those who have given their lives.
CAROLYN MAUPIN Those who understand others are intelligent. Those who understand themselves are enlightened. Those ...
LAO TZU There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat...
PEARL BAILEY There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it...
PEARL BAILEY Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.
ISSEY MIYAKE Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY Those who do not study history are forced to get it from Hollywood
ALLEN BARRA The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may b...
SIGMUND FREUD Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music.
ANON. If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. I...
PATRICK SWAYZE Fame and glory belong to those who are the first to achieve things, not those who only think about i...
NABIL N. JAMAL For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY He said that some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themsel...
SUZANNE YOUNG It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
MAY SARTON The myths have always condemned those who looked back. Condemned them, whatever the paradise may hav...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD You have to remember those are just the people who admitted it. We believe the number is much higher...
DARREL DROBNICH Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.
PROVERB Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do no...
LEONARDO DA VINCI There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do no...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it
CONFUCIUS Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure ...
HEINZ FISCHER It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
LAURENCE J. PETER It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Things are worse. The gap's getting wider -- between those who have and those who do not.
HENRY SHELTON Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past
SOURCE UNKNOWN Fame and glory belong to those who are the first to achieve things, not those who only think about i...
NABIL N. JAMAL The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradi...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
LEONARDO DAVINCI Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
HILAIRE BELLOC Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?

Pe...
PAUL ARDEN We all think of doing something distinctive in life. We all do dream of becoming great and leaving d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When they try to judge you,
remember, they themselves are judged.
When they try to condemn...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se...
MATTHEW FOX Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that...
J. D. HAYWORTH We can't repeat the fiscal mistakes of the past.
KURT SCHENK I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and t...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied
JANE AUSTEN Do the thing and you will have the power.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Do a favor of yourself, watch what you like, do what you like, and be a person not what your wife/hu...
DEYTH BANGER May I ignore those who ignore me and move past those who don't forgive because these are the truly u...
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no dunce like a mature dunce
GEORGE SANTAYANA