Virtually every stupid idea in vogue today was thought of by somebody in the past — and has led to disaster, again and again. That is why it is dangerous to neglect the study of history, so that we have to keep on learning what is wrong with clever ideas the hard way. Do we need to keep repeating the same mistakes forever?
— Thomas Sowell, Random Thoughts (2001)
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