...Aldersgate Street, the bottom of the A1 - which was the modern designation of the original Great North Road, built by the Romans two thousand years ago to march its garrisons to the very edge of the empire three hundred miles to the north. Their duty was to reinforce Hadrian's Wall, keeping the outer darkness at bay and the empire safe.

Peter F. Hamilton

Mots clés history-repeating-itself

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

T.S. Eliot

Mots clés perception past history-repeating-itself historical presence historical-perspective the-past past-and-future clarity-of-perception human-perception jared-wheat

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I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses.

Studs Terkel

Mots clés history-repeating-itself

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For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but authoritarian South Vietnamese government, to fight nationalists and communists in Vietnam. More than 23,000 U.S. military advisers were there by the end of 1964, occasionally engaging in combat. On the other side of the world, the American public knew and cared little about the guerrilla war. In fact, few knew exactly where Vietnam was. Nevertheless, people were willing to go along when their leaders told them that action was essential to resist communist aggression.

Edward S. Greenberg

Mots clés war history-repeating-itself military-history government-propaganda government-cover-ups

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Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.

J. Valor

Mots clés family history-repeating-itself generation

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