“It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.”
Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto
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“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”
David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
Source: Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul
Olaf Stapledon book Last and First Men
Source: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter XV: The Last Men; Section 4, “Cosmology” (p. 229)
“History repeats itself: historians repeat each other.”
Philip Guedalla (1889–1944) British historical writer
" Some Historians http://books.google.com/books?id=E0luAAAAMAAJ&q=%22History+repeats+itself+historians+repeat+each+other%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage," Supers & Supermen: Studies in Politics, History and Letters (1920)
“History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.”
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas For Our Time (1977) edited by Laurence J. Peter, p. 248
John W. Campbell (1910–1971) American science fiction writer and editor
and lets fly with a club.
Statement in Analog Science Fiction/Fact magazine (1965)