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History repeats itself
History never repeats itself...but it often rhymes.
i hate this quote. it just doesn't change anything. "history repeats itself" means the exact same thing. it's not like people mean that the exact same people do the exact same things in the exact same circumstances... it's just meaningless distinction without difference.
If the quote at least itself rhymed, then you could call it an improvement, but no...
I just assume it's a George Lucas reference.
it's a much older quote, often misattributed to Mark Twain, possibly because he has another quote about history not repeating. but it isn't this. this is possibly a humorous remark of some sort, but it's not that funny or clever imo. the main problem is that for it to work you need to completely misunderstand the saying "history repeats itself" to mean some sort of Battlestar Galactica's "all of this has happened before..." type mystical statement, which it isn't.
I'm not sure if this is satire or not, but I was making a rif of the "It's like poetry, it rhymes." Meme
https://youtu.be/bxU2eqZtYmc?si=mBtc9CrcXdb0JPAd
yeah i didn't make the connection, i thought he probably said it somewhere.
Mystery rhymes with history.
Dolt rhymes with colt!