Doomed to Repeat History
Comments repeatedly invoke the idea that ignoring or forgetting history's lessons condemns people to repeat past mistakes, often quoting George Santayana's famous phrase and applying it to contemporary behaviors.
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Common people, being like people in the past can be bad news. How come only good things about past are allowed to be said?
There are times i wonder if people are incapable of learning from history...
those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Haha, the history is past, ideally we should learn from those mistakes not facilitate re-creating them!
Not sure what more to say beyond a good old quote; Those who don't understand history are destined to repeat it.
Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it.
True. We tend to forget the lessons of history very fast.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Those who can remember the past are condemned to watch everyone else repeat it.
Those who don't know history are doomed to reinvent it!
"Those that don't know history are doomed to repeat it" - similar kind of mantra and I like it.