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The end of history, Mr. Fukuyama only comes when, to paraphrase George Santayana, we forget our history.
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Do deniers not recall George Santayana, a principal figure in classical American philosophy, asserting that "those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (in The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905).
Spero News 2010
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We must learn from today´s economic disaster lest, to paraphrase George Santayana, we repeat this painful experience in the years ahead.
RenewAmerica 2008
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The poet and philosopher George Santayana wrote that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Clarence B. Jones: The Israeli Palestinian Dispute Casts Ominous Shadow Over U.S. Domestic Politics Clarence B. Jones 2011
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As George Santayana, the American philosopher, once famously said, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.''
New Estate Tax Law Poses Dilemma For The Rich Deborah L. Jacobs 2011
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I told him that this was a point made by the philosopher George Santayana in the early part of the last century.
Neil McCarthy: The Professor in Me Neil McCarthy 2011
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It turns out that George Santayana did not say that "those who refuse to study history are condemned to repeat it."
Neil McCarthy: The Professor in Me Neil McCarthy 2011
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It's worth bearing in mind American philosopher George Santayana's cliché about those who cannot remember the past being condemned to repeat it.
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I told him that this was a point made by the philosopher George Santayana in the early part of the last century.
Neil McCarthy: The Professor in Me Neil McCarthy 2011
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It turns out that George Santayana did not say that "those who refuse to study history are condemned to repeat it."
Neil McCarthy: The Professor in Me Neil McCarthy 2011
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