We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.
Ray BradburyTags: books history war winning aftermath burial generations grave history-repeating-itself lonely remember
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables.
Tags: history history-repeating-itself chaos patterns
. . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15
". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995)
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Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.
Syd MooreTags: history history-repeating-itself
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
Will DurantTags: science history civilization history-repeating-itself commanding-nature eternal-recurrence
... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
E.A. BucchianeriTags: philosophical-humor history human-nature history-repeating-itself faust wine goethe vines sad-but-true repetition history-of-mankind
I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers. Their ancestors. It is true what they say: history does repeat itself, Delacroix, and those after history are left to make it, but how can they,” he removed his hand from the globe, waving it thoughtfully through the air, “when it has already been made?
S.C. ParrisTags: inspirational history history-repeating-itself vampires dialogue damion-nicodemeus the-dark-world the-dark-world-series
Tags: books rich history war hate mistakes ignorance fun history-repeating-itself forgotten poor bombs classism uncaring starving cave atomic
Humans are capable of so much more. Power mongers like you have stripped away what is most valuable to us, the importance of our heritage and family values. We have been robbed of this, blinded by your authority, while you encourage us to burry ourselves in debt and rely on our corrupt governments. Men and women around the world have been forced to work long hours to keep up with inflated debts, all the while abandoning the families they struggle to support. History repeats, and repeats. It’s time to break the cycle and start anew.
Aaron B. PowellTags: politics science-fiction corruption history-repeating-itself
Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret?
[Theodore Roosevelt 1901 relating reports of water torture in the Philippines to lynching in the south]
Tags: us-presidents history-repeating-itself torture
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