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QUOTATION:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
ATTRIBUTION:George Santayana (1863–1952), U.S. philosopher, poet. Life of Reason, “Reason in Common Sense,” ch. 12 (1905-6).

William L. Shirer made these words the epigraph for his Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1959).
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