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title: "3 Learning From History Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/i-wonder-sometimes-whether-men-and-women-in-fact-are-capable-of/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [“This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/this-is-where-the-capitalists-got-it-right-they-were-better-than-the/)

[John Lewis Gaddis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lewis-gaddis/)

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> [“Learning from history helps us avoid repeating its mistakes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-uner/learning-from-history-helps-us-avoid-repeating-its-mistakes/)

[T.A. Uner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-uner/)

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