Even Historians Fail To Learn From History -- They Repeat The Same Mistakes.

Even Historians Fail To Learn From History -- They Repeat The Same Mistakes.

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Even historians fail to learn from history -- they repeat the
same mistakes.
-- John Gill, "Patterns of Force," stardate 2534.7.

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