The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
- Aldous Huxley
History is constantly changing, being altered, and yet a phrase such as "History repeats itself" is uttered everyday. Wars are fought for the same reasons, speeches are given that mimic the ones from the past and yet each of them add something new and different to life and our surroundings. They are the same but different. This is where the charm becomes part of it, in the fact that we can see the past repeat and yet everytime it repeats there are new eccentricities.
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