Who said he who forgets the past is condemned to repeat it ?

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George Santayana
You are paraphrasing , the actual quote is:
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
And it is credited to: George Santayana
Spanish/American philosopher and poet George Santayana (1863-1952), wrote these words in his 1905-06 work "Life of Reason":

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

You'll find it in the section titled "Reason in Common Sense," chapter 12.

The sentence gained currency and popularity when it was used as the epigraph of William L. Shirer's 1959 history Nazi Germany, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich."

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