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"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
—Karl Marx
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They say the next big thing is here, —"History Repeating", by the Propellerheads and Shirley Bassey.
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Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.
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History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
—Clarence Darrow
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All this has happened before and will happen again.
—Numerous folks in Battlestar Galactica' (Originally a quote from Peter Pan)
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History comes full circle. Sometimes humanity survives, other times.... it's obliterated. We tell stories to help us remember history. To keep us from reigniting a war that could no doubt destroy another planet and perhaps another race. I wish the best of those who find a fallen meteor, who uncover a little secret, who follow the trail, or reconstruct my nightmare.
—Grizzly one in Battlezone 1998 by Activision
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History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
—Mark Twain, giving us the No Except Yes version.
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Those who fail to remember History are doomed to repeat it.
—George Santayna
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