One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again. Do we need to keep repeating the same mistakes forever?
— Thomas Sowell, Jewish World Review Column by Thomas Sowell (2001)
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