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• History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

  ?UnattributedOften credited to Mark Twain

• The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

  Adolf Hitler1889–1945

• There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

  Harry S. Truman1884–1972

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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