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History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other. - Ar

History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other. – Arthur Balfour

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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour

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Mankind, Man
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Arthur Balfour
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur Balfour

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Art
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The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf

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So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history. – Murray Gell-Mann

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Ive been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National. – Jack Nicklaus

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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. – Gertrude Stein

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