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The lessons of history"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." Aldous Huxley
"If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." G. W. F. Hegel
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana
"History repeats itself because no one was listening the first time." Anonymous
"What man is, only history tells." George Mosse
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