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Subject: Who said "Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It"?
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Posted: 15 Mar 2005 18:22 PST
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Who said "Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It"?
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Subject: Re: Who said "Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It"?
Answered By: pinkfreud-ga on 15 Mar 2005 18:38 PST
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This saying appears in many different forms, but the earliest version
is probably that of the poet and philosopher George Santayana: "Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"Notable Quotations from George Santayana
'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' 
Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense, Scribner's, 1905, page 284" 

Collecting and Editing the Works of George Santayana
http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/

"The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition.  2002. 
  
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 
  
Studying history is necessary to avoid repeating past mistakes. This
saying comes from the writings of George Santayana, a Spanish-born
American author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."

Bartleby: The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/thosewhocann.html

"The Columbia World of Quotations.  1996. 
  
NUMBER: 48129 
QUOTATION: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 
ATTRIBUTION: George Santayana (1863?1952), U.S. philosopher, poet.
Life of Reason, 'Reason in Common Sense,' ch. 12 (1905-6).

William L. Shirer made these words the epigraph for his Rise and Fall
of the Third Reich (1959)."

Bartleby: The Columbia World of Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/66/29/48129.html

Here's an interesting little article about the many versions of this famous quote:

Jaywalker Magazine: Forget the Past! 
http://jaywalker.ca/Jaywalker_Magazine/Columns/Publisher's%20Notes/forget_the_past.htm

My Google search strategy:

Google Web Search: santayana "common sense" "to repeat it"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=santayana+%22common+sense%22+%22to+repeat+it%22

I hope this is precisely what you need to know. Please let me know if
anything requires clarification.

Best regards,
pinkfreud

Clarification of Answer by pinkfreud-ga on 15 Mar 2005 18:40 PST
I notice that one of my links didn't make it to the 'clickable' stage.

For the Jaywalker Magazine article, please try this link instead:

http://tinyurl.com/6uaa3

~pinkfreud
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