who said he who refuses to learn from history is condemned to repeat it?
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"He who refuses to learn from history is doomed to repeat it."  Arnold Toynbee.  Who can afford NOT to be a history buff?\n\nDid Toynbee really say that?  (Source?)  Or are you thinking of \nGeorge Santayana:  "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned \nto repeat it."  (*The Life of Reason*, 1905)\nOr, John Buchan:  "The hasty reformer who does not remember the past \nwill find himself condemned to repeat it."  (*Great Britain*, 1923)\nOr, G.W.F. Hegel:  "Rulers, statesmen, nations, are wont to be \nemphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in \nhistory.  But what experience and history teach is this--that peoples \nand governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on \nprinciples deduced from it."  (*Philosophy of History*, 1899).
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He was a professor of History (as I remember it).  Who happens to be one of those people who deny the Holocaust.  He has been for a while, I guess he just did it in the wrong place this time.
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hell no! he is an evil liar....."those who are willing to give up freedom for security, will end up with neither"\n winston churchill
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We learn about History so we can know what happened and not repeat the past.\n\nUnfortunately so many are so ignorant of the past that it gets repeated.
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history will remember him as a complete and utter failure.
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nostradamus is considered to be quite accurate. according to historians he foresighted 911, london bombing, and reign of hitler
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There is no true defense, however people choose to turn a blind eye. It sickens me that this is the man that is representing all of us to the rest of the word, and people continue to ignore the truth.
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Thomas Jefferson -\n" Those who would give up Freedom for Safety\nDeserve neither Safety or Freedom."\n\n\nseems clear enough
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Who said we hate homosexuals?
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Abraham Lincoln - "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
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History teaches us that it cannot be done. They will lack the skills to run stable administration, even if they do then it will at the expense of freedom of activities and thought.
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Differing opinions due to ignorance.Past ,present and future it will still be due to this!
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"He who is without sin, cast the first stone."  All of you should be ashamed for the hatred that you show towards indviduals, even though your reference to hate is only subtle.  If we asked for every president to apologize for their mistakes, where would we be?  I'm not condoning the man, but I cannot accept the answers you give as those from knowledgable, thinking, unbiased people.
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I would love to go back and try to prevent Julius Caeser or Theophilus or whoever is responsible from burning the GREAT LIBRARY of ALEXANDRIA to the ground. The setback mankind experienced on that day is immeasurable. So much knowledge lost would make any sane person cry.
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The original quote was actually "Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them." The statement was made by George Santayana, philosopher, from Reason in Common Sense. \n\nThe quote has been tweaked a bit throughout history, perhaps to give a more modern and personal connection to the quote.
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"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."---George Santayana \n\nIt's not quite the quote you gave, but it's close.
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"Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."\nby Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Twilight of the Idols (1899)