{"quotes":[{"text":"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["history","history-of-mankind","history","history-repeating-itself"],"id":2397,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history.","author":"Jordan Maxwell","tags":["change","history-repeating-itself","pattern-recognition","preface","the-world-condition"],"id":27916,"author_id":"Jordan+Maxwell"},{"text":"The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["clarity-of-perception","historical","historical-perspective","history-repeating-itself","human-perception","jared-wheat","past","past-and-future","perception","presence","the-past"],"id":29247,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"...But the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.","author":"Jeffrey Goldberg","tags":["hatred","history-repeating-itself","war"],"id":44239,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Goldberg"},{"text":"So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.","author":"Will Durant","tags":["civilization","commanding-nature","eternal-recurrence","history","history-repeating-itself","science"],"id":59274,"author_id":"Will+Durant"},{"text":"History matters, not because it repeats itself (which it never does), but because its narration can rid demons that torment the oppressed, shock the complacent and intransigent into self-reflection, and inspire feats of human perseverance and will.","author":"Seth Garfield","tags":["brazil","history","history-repeating-itself","importance","oppressed","self-reflection"],"id":71564,"author_id":"Seth+Garfield"},{"text":"The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adult-education","adult-life","adult-literacy","africa","cities-and-countries","citizen-of-the-world","citizens-of-humanity","citizens-of-the-world","citizenship","collaboration","combat","cooperation-and-attitude","cooperation-s","diseases","ebola","ebola-disease","ebola-in-africa","ebola-in-west-africa","ebola-origin","ebola-spread","ebola-victims","education","formal-education","health","health-and-fitness","health-care","health-care-reform","health-care-reform-in-africa","health-care-system","health-careers","healthy-living","historian","historians","history","history-of-mankind","history-of-philosophy","history-of-thought","history-politics","history-repeating-itself","informal","informal-education","informal-fallacy","informal-sector","information-literacy","international","international-cooperation","international-law","international-relations","preventative-medicine","prevention-of-diseases-in-africa","prevention-of-ebola","virus","west-africa","working-out","working-together","working-with-people"],"id":82337,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Two categories of people can be found in the world today. There are those who make things happen and there are those who watch things happen. A spectator watch things happen while a player make things happen. In the same vein, history writers watch things happen and history makers make things happen. This is why history writers are always at the mercy of history makers.","author":"Benjamin Suulola","tags":["benjamin-suulola","destiny-lifters","history","history-repeating-itself","leadership","purpose-reminder-for-you","spectators","stirred-up","transformation","world-changers"],"id":85814,"author_id":"Benjamin+Suulola"},{"text":"How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["atomic","bombs","books","cave","classism","forgotten","fun","hate","history","history-repeating-itself","ignorance","mistakes","poor","rich","starving","uncaring","war"],"id":93822,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["aftermath","books","burial","generations","grave","history","history-repeating-itself","lonely","remember","war","winning"],"id":105085,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}