Experience and history teach us that neither people nor governments have ever learned anything from history, nor have they ever acted according to lessons drawn from history. https://diamond.jp/articles/-/300837
relevance - The fool learns from experience, the wise learn from history - Synthesis makes “the people are fools”.
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