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• The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
  -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) I know guys can't learn from yesterday ....
• What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
  -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "Philosophy and History...
• Order is the first requisite of liberty. -- Georg Wihelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
• German philosopher) Georg Wilhelm Hegel, on his deathbed, complained, "Only one man ever understood me.
  He fell silent for a while and then added, "And he didn't understand me....
• We learn from history that we do not learn from history. Georg Wilhelm F. Hegel
• The *evident* character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud
  and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn....
• The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.
  -- Earl Warren That men do not learn very much from history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach....
• The value of money has an objective regulator only when it is linked to a real commodity, like gold, itself requiring the cost of human labor to be produced.
  By comparison, the value of inconvertible paper money has no objective regulator, its marginal cost of production being nearly zero....
• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
  -- Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life, 1770...