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You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.


Chuck Palahniuk

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SARA SHEPARD Those who disregard the past are bound to repeat it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember ...
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GEORGE SANTAYANA History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. ...
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HENRY HAZLITT It's always nice to remember and honor the old folks. Today, even though I'm getting old, I honor th...
CHARLOTTE RAE Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
LEMONY SNICKET Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
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JAY TRACHMAN Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
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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 Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
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Reward those who help you today.
Remember those who ...
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MAURICE MAETERLINCK The more she tried to forget, the more she remembered.
T.K. KISER The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past
SOURCE UNKNOWN Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do.
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BILL BRADLEY We all have a duty to define who we are
SOTONYE ANGA We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
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WALTER ISAACSON One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
OLASOT Words are magic to those who chose to listen, to those who don’t are bones.
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WILLIAM BANDAK The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.
JOHN WELCH Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school
JOSH STERN Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.
ROBERT K. MUELLER I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who actually do.
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ANE KRSTEVSKA how you were moved by a child in its mother’s arms, how you saw an old man on his deathbed, and ho...
ROBERT WALSER This is a day for us to remember all those loved ones that were lost and everyone who suffered so mu...
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MASASHI KISHIMOTO Things are worse. The gap's getting wider -- between those who have and those who do not.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Masochism is a valuable job skill.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
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