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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 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 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 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
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
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
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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
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.
— George Eliot
History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
— James A. Garfield
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
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
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
