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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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I’ve always like this metaphor. Alexander Woolcott called striking coincidences “the universe caught in the veriest act of rhyming.”

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It’s like poetry

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yeah, the very same conflicts and tensions we had in the world back then are still here now…

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