“While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.”– Eric Alterman Related Quotes “It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.”– Richard P. Feynman “How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world’s main religions?”– Polly Toynbee “After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.”– Condoleezza Rice