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fuzz2050 wrote:"those who have not learned thier past are doomed to repeat it"
i dont know who said itr first, but im saying it now
well, i dont know why the chinese practise it now, but there must of ben a reason the vast majoirty of the peasants decided to side with the communists, isnt there?
Sure, the same reasoning America used to break the yoke of the English monarchy, freedom! A freedom based on laws not the tyranny of the few. A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.
George Walden (b. 1939), British Conservative politician. Times (London, 20 Dec. 1986).
But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher. The Philosophy of History, Introduction (1807).
Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
Anonymous.
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don’t use the stuff—well, it might as well be dead.
A. J. Toynbee (1889–1975), British historian. Television broadcast, 17 April 1955, NBC-TV.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Quoted in: William Hillman, Mr. President, pt. 2, ch. 1 (1952).
However, I believe what you have loosely quoted is from:
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana (1863–1952), U.S. philosopher, poet. Life of Reason,“Reason in Common Sense,” ch. 12 (1905–6). William L. Shirer used this quote as an epigraph in his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1959).
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