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by pmiller2 2021 days ago
Indeed, everything old is new again. You know the saying, right? History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme. This is often attributed to Mark Twain, but there's no real evidence he actually said it.
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Given how we seem to be unwilling to learn from history, I prefer Julian Barnes' take from "A History of the World in 10½ Chapters"

> History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

In this case, I think quoting the introduction to the The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Marx is more apt: Hegel says somewhere that great historic facts and personages recur twice. He forgot to add: "Once as tragedy, and again as farce."