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| Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on
retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
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- George Santayana
The Life of Reason (1905) |
| The historian is a prophet looking backwards. |
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- Friedrich Schlegel
Athenaeum |
| History, by apprising [people] of the past, will enable them to judge the future. |
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- Thomas Jefferson
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