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The saying often attributed to George Santayana and Winston Churchill warns that "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." The true lesson is less about specific events and more about recognizing recurring human behaviors: confidence in our systems, underestimation of human ingenuity, and the dangers of certainty bred from complexity. History does not exactly repeat itself, but its rhythms—fears, pride, and assumptions—do, time and again.