The American philosopher, George Santayana, who was born in Spain and originally named Jorge Agustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana y Borras, is the originator of the saying, ‘those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ This saying has been copied and paraphrased again and again, but if one pays attention to what is going on in the world today, it seems that no one has ever really paid much more than lip service to it.
