History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

Liz Curtis Higgs
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History provides a great example but a terrible excuse. If we fail to learn from our mistakes and repeat them, we will be doomed to repeat them. The only way we can avoid the mistakes of history is to learn from it and not repeat it.

Source: Bad Girls Of The Bible: And What We Can Learn From Them

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