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The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

History repeats itself is another way of saying the past harmonizes. — Stephen King

History was gathering itself to deliver another blow — Douglas Adams

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning? — Jodi Picoult

History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away. — Tariq Ali

History never repeats itself - but historical situations recur." As — Arthur C. Clarke

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down - or up, I suppose - replacing other people in the process. — Alexander McCall Smith

I spend every day showing people the power of history. But history only has the power you give it. — Brad Meltzer

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done. — Sydney J. Harris

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. — Karl Marx

History repeating itself is history's oldest story. — Steve Wick

Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile. — Wynne McLaughlin

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history. — Lester R. Brown

History tended to repeat itself.
Why should her past be any different? — Kayla Krantz

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. — Lord Henry Wotton

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time. — Erik Qualman

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. — Mark Twain

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. — George Bernard Shaw

Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself. — Gregory Woods

History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides, — Barbara W. Tuchman

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
[1880] — Max Beerbohm

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. — Oscar Wilde

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach. — Adolf Hitler

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual. — Jacques Ellul

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself. — George Eliot

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up. — Will Durant

History never repeats itself. Man always does. — Voltaire

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories. — Mike Colter

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. — James A. Garfield

In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. — Rex Reed

History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. — Glenn Greenwald

Gamora: History repeating itself?
Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes. — Dan Abnett

History repeats itself, you sang. I wonder if that's true. If there's a hurt
that's buried in us, maybe it keeps fi nding its way through. — Ava Dellaira

If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself. — Gavin Mills

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments. — Jean-Andre De Luc

Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable. — Philip Gulley

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. — Jean Baudrillard

History may not repeat itself but, as Mark Twain said, it does rhyme. — Paul Kriwaczek

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions. — Tanith Lee

Note: If you met your wife while she was married to another man, history is bound to repeat itself. — Jim Gaffigan

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again. — Terry Venables

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them. — Guy Gavriel Kay

The Night Times has prided itself throughout its long history in telling the truth, the whole truth, and as much gossip as it could get away with. — Simon R. Green

History always repeats itself — Gerald J. Kubicki

History as well as life itself is complicated
neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. — Jared Diamond

History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. — Max Beerbohm

If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions. — John Dean

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines! — E.A. Bucchianeri

Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are. — Syd Moore

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion. — Philip Schaff

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it. — Jonathan R. Miller

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. — Ronald Wright

Silence ensures that history repeats itself. — Erin Gruwell

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. — Will Durant

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself. — Lily Tomlin

History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze. — Cassandra Clare

Hegel said that history was the story of freedom becoming conscious of itself. — Christopher Hitchens

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light. — William L. Shirer

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. — Martin Heidegger

I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. — David Talbot

For every written history, there is a silenced part of it, that is left to remain untold and undiscovered until history repeats itself. — Joon Mier Da Mienta

History may not repeat itself," in Mark Twain's wise formulation, "but it rhymes. — Adam Smith

Chivalry is itself the poetry of life. - SCHLEGEL, Philosophy of History. — Inazo Nitobe

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. — Samuel P. Huntington

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. — Tony Judt

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition. — Terence McKenna

History within itself cannot be transcended ... In history itself there are only relative victories. — Ernst Troeltsch

History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself. — Geoffrey Ward

Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now. — J. Valor

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned. — Demetri Martin

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. — Eric Alterman

...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence. — Jeffrey Goldberg

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur! — Anonymous

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. — Naguib Mahfouz

History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it. — Christian Adam Ribeiraud

The problem with revolutions is that they always end right where they begin. — Matthew Catania

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late. — Kenneth Roberts

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club. — John W. Campbell Jr.

History repeats itself and that's just how it goes, — J. Cole

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. — Henry Kissinger

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions. — Jeremy Grantham

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself. — H.L. Mencken

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. — George Vecsey

Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel. — Christina Baker Kline

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today. — A.J. Muste

With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us. — Evan Meekins

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past. — Max De Pree

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. — Karl Marx

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. — Clarence Darrow

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. — James Gleick

Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history. — Jordan Maxwell

History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page — George Gordon Byron

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic. — Terry Eagleton

Indeed, it occasionally seems as if the book has attempted to inoculate itself against the prospect of actually being read. — Roger Moorhouse

Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and studying that past. — Sonia Sotomayor

War without end.

Well, what was history without that?

And how would having the stars change anything? — James S.A. Corey