Eyeball On The Past

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“People Will Never Remember Not To Forget” – Dailey Pike

Poster for the “War of Wealth” by Charles Turner Dazey, a play that opened February 10, 1896. Caption: The run on the bank : a crisis in the affairs of the great financial institution. The most animated and realistic scene ever shown on the stage.
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Well here we are over 100 years later going through the very same thing. It brings to mind George Santayana’s quote, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Santayana is a very quotable fellow. He also said, “Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”

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