I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of lear…

Barack Obama
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I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline. ✨ Barack Obama (2007). The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, p.322, Canongate Books
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