| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 48129 |
| QUOTATION: | Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Santayana (18631952), 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). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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