Repetition of history

Many thinkers and academics have made comments on how history seems to have a repetition to it.

Examples

• Edmund Burke, British philosopher and paymaster, said in 1790:
  “People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”^{(Burke, 1790)}
• George Santayana, a Spanish-American philosopher, said in 1905:
  “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”^{(Santayana, 1905, p. 172)}
• Theodor Reik, Austrian-American psychoanalyst and Doctor in Psychology, said in 1965:
  “It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes.”^{(Reik, 1965)}