A Quote by Lee Benson

History never repeats itself, historians do. — © Lee Benson
History never repeats itself, historians do.

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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.
True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
History never repeats itself in the same way.
While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.
Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
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