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


Edmund Burke

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Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school
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Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
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Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
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Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Those who cannot remember the past are damned to repeat it
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Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.
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Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. —Bene Gesserit Coda
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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History tends to repeat itself only because the people who make it, try to cover it up.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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Yesterday is history we write today to repeat it tomorrow.
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History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
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Life tends not to forgive those who intentionally repeat errors in judgement.
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We repeat each other's history.
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There is no reason to repeat bad history.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.
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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who actually do.
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History never repeats itself ,as most people fear. People usually repeat history.
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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
PHILIP GUEDALLA
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other
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History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
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History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to th...
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no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ...
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To not repeat history is to show history and I think people really need to see this.
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My hope is that history will continue to repeat itself,
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Should history repeat itself, my example will repeat itself too...and not once, but fifty-fold.
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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
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I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
I don't don't know why know why,
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You have to turn the page. Don't let history repeat itself.
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people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
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When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like...
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Don't lie to yourself?
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SIMONE ELKELES
I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.
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i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g...
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G.K. CHESTERTON
You want to make the most of those opportunities. I got a great pass and got Burke sliding.
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I dont know what happens to country.
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Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?
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People who think they know it all, are especially annoying to those of us who do!
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Wars are made by those who are old enough to know better, and fought by those who are not.
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Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.
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Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
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History tended to repeat itself.
Why should her past be any different?
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for...
EDMUND BURKE
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
EDMUND BURKE
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; i...
EDMUND BURKE
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
EDMUND BURKE
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
EDMUND BURKE
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to...
EDMUND BURKE
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
EDMUND BURKE
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upo...
EDMUND BURKE
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
EDMUND BURKE
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
EDMUND BURKE
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
EDMUND BURKE
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
EDMUND BURKE