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The challenge with history

There is a lot of wisdom in this:

The challenge with history, however, is that it’s a very fickle teacher. Which is a lot of the key to understanding history is what the circumstances were. And what we tend to do when we study history is look for attributes, so circumstances versus attribute thinking.

— Michael Mauboussin

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