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What are the benefits or uses of studying history?

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What are the benefits or uses of studying history?
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Supposedly, it keeps you from doing stupid things by showing you what happens to people who already did them. Lately, that doesn't seem to be working, though.
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History is good for learning how things came about and where. History is to teach usour past , present, and fture. I would call history a life skills planner. If you learn about hisor you will learn about the mistakes people before you made.
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If you do not know history you are doomed to repeat it.
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Not a damn thing man, not a damn thing.
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I see history as trues stories... legends, tales... The greatest of stories in our past-times... passed down from genration to generation... It is important to know history because it tells the story of how you got where you are...
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