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“He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.”
― I Am Number Four
― I Am Number Four
“History is the poisoned well, seeping into the ground-water. It’s not the unknown past we’re doomed to repeat, but the past we know. Every recorded event is a brick of potential, of precedent, thrown into the future. Eventually the idea will hit someone in the back of the head. This is the duplicity of history: an idea recorded will become an idea resurrected. Out of fertile ground, the compost of history.”
― Fugitive Pieces
― Fugitive Pieces
“Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it”
― Wanted
― Wanted
“It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.”
― The Charlemagne Pursuit
― The Charlemagne Pursuit
“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
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