Condemned

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condemned

Title text: Pro Tip: Any quote that sounds pithy was either (A) never said by the person who supposedly said it, or (B) at least somewhat contradicted by the surrounding sentences in the original source.

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There's this george santayana quote:

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Yeah.

But if you actually read the book, you only have to look at the previous sentence

When experience is

Not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

To realize that it doesn't mean what everyone thinks it means.

Hoh. So it's actoally a point about 'savages" without historical records

Right.

It's not about people today who don't read

Enough

But that means

People who don't know the past of that quote are condemned to

Repeat it. Incorrectly.

Though, in fairness, its history has no bearing on whether the shortened quote is valid

I don't want to understand the

World. I just want

To be right.

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