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N Y Yankee’s baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra (1925–2015) was noted almost as much for what came out of his mouth as from his glove (first catcher, later manager and coach).
Perhaps more so.
Here is a list of some of his more memorable lines:
One of them is the title of this piece.
American humorist and writer Mark Twain (1835–1910) famously said, “History doesn’t repeat itself. But it often rhymes.”
You needn’t be a poet to remember Adolf Hitler.
More than any other single person, he was responsible for what happened in WWII (1939–1945):
40–50M deaths, including those of an estimated 6M Jews
$4T (in today’s U. S. dollars) in cost.
As one looks back, there may have been many times he could have been stopped.
But he wasn’t.
One can see so clearly in hindsight.
There were 42 attempted assassinations, none successful.
Which recalls the adage: “Only the good die young,” the expression credited to men as different as William Wordsworth (British poet, 1770–1850) and contemporary songwriter Billy Joel.
