History

History doesn't repeat itself.

It echoes itself, it parodies itself, it shadows and foreshadows itself. Sometimes it mirrors itself, which is to say that it returns but with everything about it in reverse. It haunts itself--we can see ghosts flitting by but those ghosts have lost the power to affect life and besides they have business of their own. It resembles itself, the way grandchildren resemble their grandparents. That doesn't make them the same people though.
--Lance Mannion