Knowing History prevents you from repeating bad history.

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  Posted by Web Diva September 27, 2022 - Filed in Arts & Culture - #History  #know your history  - 484 views
  

  History ~  Are your eyes wide open to view through windows from the past, and to look into the vicissitudes of the future?

  From the time I was young, history, was a fascinating subject for me and until this day, it still is.  I read James Michener's book, Centennial in eighth grade, just as an example of my early passion for history.  If you haven't been introduced to that book, it's an undertaking, in paperback, 1056 pages (yes, I looked it up).  I'm not a person that lives in the past and won't join the future, but I am a person that views historical documents and facts from the past as relevant content to process, philosophize, study, form opinions and in the most basic sense, learn what and why the events took place, and consider how the end result would have been different had the event took an altered course by random variables.

  "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.

  "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it", Winston Churchill, Speech to the House of Commons, 1948; paraphrased, George Santayana.

  The quote by George Santayana and later paraphrased by Winston Churchill, sums up the necessity of the study of history in a profound sentence. 
  

  "He that deceives me once, it's his fault; but if twice, it's my fault."  Anthony Weldon, The Court and Character of King James, 1651, an old Italian proverb.