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Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience. -- Ben Bernanke
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. -- Elie Wiesel
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. -- Ken Burns
I'm quite proud of growing up in New Zealand where, from quite early on in primary school, you're learning to count in Maori, Maori mythology and dances and colours and history, and I think that gives a child a really good grounding. -- Martin Henderson
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
It's great to work with people who are jobbing actors at different stages of their career, and learning from them, and getting over being star-struck by somebody like Ian McKellen because he has such a long prestigious history in the business, but then seeing how he works on the camera; you never stop learning. -- William Kircher
Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities. -- George Nethercutt

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