Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana in The Life of Reason (1905)
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In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

George Santayana in The Life of Reason (1905)
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