This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.
Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.
The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut.
It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.
Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.
Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.
History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.
This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things. I hope this doesn't come true in our country. Maybe the film will waken people to the situation.
Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
History repeats herself.
Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.
History never repeats itself in the same way.
Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
I just always thought 'Groundhog Day' was potentially a great idea.
One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
Events tend to recur in cycles.
There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
History goes in cycles.
