History, a lesson we all must heed


“THERE is no present or future, only the past happening over and over again, now.”

American playwright Eugene O’Neil, who was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature, famously wrote that. It reaffirms the old adage that history repeats itself.

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