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  • From: "Jerry W. Shepperd" <shepperd AT mail2.pvco.net>
  • To: raving_dove AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] One year vision
  • Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:46:13 -0500

April,

I understand George Santayana's saying to mean that what we learn from history is that human actions have consequences. It is not institutions, governments, businesses, or even history that acts; it is humans pursuing, or attempting to pursue their own ends.

Jerry Shepperd

At 07:12 PM 8/2/2008, you wrote:
I have always wondered about the old saying that if we don't study history, we are doomed to repeat it. Perhaps I'm really clueless, but it seems to me that there's always an excuse to repeat history, simply because people don't see the similarities of the situations, and think the differences make the situation different.

April




>
> In terms of the Romans, I wonder, too, at what they point
> they
> realized "Oh, crap, we're going to crash this
> thing" and then I
> realize, hey, Nero never got it. Maybe people don't.




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