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The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. (Henry Hazlitt)[][]
A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)[][]
Study the past, if you would divine the future. (Confucius)[][]
God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians. (Samuel Butler)[][]
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