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"text": "If it be true that history repeats itself, then assuredly a narrative of domestic trials, of political emergencies, and of religious animosities can never be out of date, since men and women still bear in their hearts, passions as vindictive, a patriotism as ardent, and, let us hope, a piety as sincere as distinguished, in the sixteenth century, Philip and Charlotte du Plessis de Mornay.",
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"ref": "1962, Kendig Brubaker Cully, Confirmation: History, Doctrine, and Practice, →OCLC, page 152",
"text": "If history repeats itself, so does religious experience. As the story of the Church unfolds, the individual finds himself as part of the providential purpose of God within the realm in which the living God reigns.",
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"ref": "2016, Jeanette Baxter, J.G. Ballard's Surrealist Imagination",
"text": "In other words, Ballard's pseudo-scientific tales remap social history's penchant for psychoanalysing the impact of historical atrocity (World War II) by deflecting it onto another historical disaster (Vietnam). Only, history repeats itself in Ballard's text with one crucial, contemporary difference: in 'Love and Napalm: Export USA' it is no longer the combatant, the active participant of war, who comes under psychological scrutiny, but the passive spectators",
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"text": "We all know [in paraphrase] Marx's remark that history repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce. Marx had in mind the tragedy of the fall of Napoleon I and the later farce of the reign of his nephew Napoleon III. Back in the 1960s, Herbert Marcuse remarked that the lesson of Nazism seems to be the opposite one: first as a farce (throughout the 1920s, Hitler and his gang were mostly taken as a bunch of marginal political clowns), then as a tragedy (when Hitler effectively took power).",
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"word": "التَّارِيخ يُعِيدُ نَفْسِهِ"
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"word": "इतिहास दोहरता है"
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"word": "a történelem ismétli önmagát"
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"word": "la storia si ripete"
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"roman": "Rekishi wa kurikaeshimasu",
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"word": "歴史は繰り返します"
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"roman": "yeoksaneun banbokdoenda",
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"word": "역사는 반복된다"
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"word": "Historien gjentar seg selv"
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"word": "historia lubi się powtarzać"
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"word": "historia zatacza koło"
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"word": "a história se repete"
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"word": "Historien gjentar seg selv"
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"roman": "istorija povtorjajetsja",
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"word": "история себя повторяет"
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"roman": "tarīx dohartā hai",
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