“History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in exactly the same way.”

— Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Source: Alexander: Child of a Dream

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“The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

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“Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man’s potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

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“Many of the great achievements in history that are commonly attributed to one geo-cultural domain often owe a great debt to those of others. In this sense, some of the greatest achievements of human civilisation have been collective efforts and are part of the same human story.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan (1959) philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author

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“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”

Joseph Conrad book The Mirror of the Sea

Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 8

“(On Ricky asking him to do a diary next year)No I wouldn't, you know, cos you do the same stuff ever year don't ya? It's set up the same way: January, February it's the same thing, it's the same routine”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

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“There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to saving humanity. History always repeats itself.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?”

John W. Campbell (1910–1971) American science fiction writer and editor

and lets fly with a club.
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“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

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“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)

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