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History Repeats Itself—Unfortunately
History repeats itself, rst as a tragedy then as farce.
Karl Marx
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF THEORIES
ere is nothing more dicult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success,
than an attempt to introduce a new order of things. For the innovator has
for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order, while
those who expect to be benetted by the new order will only oer lukewarm
defense.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469–1527)
Author of e Prince
It is said that a clever person asks dicult questions and a very clever per-
son asks profoundly simple questions. You can be the judge as to whether ...