“The most important thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history ”
— Aldous Huxley
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People keep making the same mistakes over and over. Even though we can look back at events from the past and see what went wrong, we often ignore these lessons and repeat those mistakes. For example, many wars have started for similar reasons, like greed or power, even though history has shown us the terrible consequences of war. If a person knows that working too much can harm their health because they have seen this happen to others in the past, but they still choose to work all the time, they are not learning from history. To not repeat these errors, we should pay attention to past events and try to make better choices based on what we know.
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