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- From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: History (was: a paradox)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.021147.5983@quantime.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 02:11:47 GMT
- References: <BzMBpA.1y3@ie.utoronto.ca> <7249712773575@spatial.eid.anl.gov>
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- In article <7249712773575@spatial.eid.anl.gov>,
- shugrue@spatial.eid.anl.gov (Leon Shugrue) writes:
- > In article <BzMBpA.1y3@ie.utoronto.ca>
- > xiao@ie.utoronto.ca (Yan Xiao) writes:
- > > "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history"
- >
- > "History will teach us nothing"
- > - Sting
-
- "What experience and history teach is this - that nations
- and governments have never learned anything from history,
- or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."
- -- G. W. F. Hegel
-
- "Hegel says somewhere that all great events and
- personalities in world history reappear in one fashion or
- another. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the
- second as farce."
- -- Karl Marx
-
- "Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the
- second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered
- a process. History just burps, and we taste again that
- raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago."
- -- Julian Barnes
-
- --
- Roger Phillips roger@quantime.co.uk
- "*crib-biting* in horses, a vicious habit of biting the manger, etc.,
- and swallowing air" -- Chambers English Dictionary (1988)
-