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["Jerry W. Shepperd" <shepperd AT mail2.pvco.net>]

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.
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> April
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> > 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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