If their a real Smartypants they may even throw out a phrase in Latin. That really get the Chick going let me tell you!
“History repeats itself” PERIOD. Its really just that simple.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) famously said, “Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion” and “We learn from history that we do not learn from history”. He was an important figure of German idealism and has become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition as well.
“History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.” - Mark Twain............