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Soph0571

(9,685 posts) Sun Apr 28, 2019, 11:34 AM Apr 2019

History repeating itself...for Millennia

Seems like keeping them stupid is a very old trick....
Lies and deceit - the axis on which the conservative world spins..

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History repeating itself...for Millennia (Original Post) Soph0571 Apr 2019 OP

The more things change, the more they stay the same... Wounded Bear Apr 2019 #1

Do you know the source of that quote? Jim__ Apr 2019 #2

Wounded Bear

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1. The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sun Apr 28, 2019, 11:39 AM

Apr 2019

All things old are new again.

The list of adages goes on and on...

Jim__

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2. Do you know the source of that quote?

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sun Apr 28, 2019, 11:49 AM

Apr 2019

It looked strange to me, so I did a search and found A Blog Of Tom (from 2014) who said he could not find it in any of the Platonic dialogues:

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I've just searched through all of the Platonic dialogues on Project Gutenberg, without success. The phrase "strange times" doesn't seem to occur at all, and no instance of "school" turns up anything remotely like the alleged quote. I'm therefore pretty confident when I say that this quote isn't actually from Plato. Dunno who it is from, but it ain't Plato.

The comments to Tom's essay found the quote in: Pen Sketches of Nebraskans. There the quote is attributed to George Francis Train.

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