Are these sentences not wrong?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>I’ll just get to the point. I see a lot of sentences that have a random comma in the middle.
For example, in the classroom I’m in right now, there is a poster that reads:
“Those who fail to learn history, are doomed to repeat it.”
-Winston Churchill</p>

<p>Is that comma supposed to be there? It just seems wrong! Now, I’m not the best at English, but I just see stuff like this all the time on Facebook and a lot of other places.</p>

<p>I’d like to know if my brain has been lying to me all these years.</p>

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<p>Wow. Not only does a comma not belong in that sentence, it should read “Those who fail to learn FROM history are doomed to repeat it.”</p>

<p>Here’s a further irony; there’s no evidence Churchill ever said it. </p>

<p>[Those</a> who fail to learn from history…](<a href=“America’s National Churchill Museum | Blog Archive”>America’s National Churchill Museum | Blog Archive)</p>

<p>George Santayana did write, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (in The Life of Reason, 1905)</p>

<p>If you want to quote Churchill on history, try this: “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” :0)</p>

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<p>Well, I thought I might have left “from” out accidentally, but it really is left out. Wow.</p>

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<p>Sentences like that, are nonsense up with which I will not put.</p>

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<p>I’d be tempted to replace it with a homemade poster reading, “Those who know neither grammar nor history are doomed to produce bad posters,” but whoever put the poster up probably wouldn’t get it!</p>

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<p>[No</a> wonder Churchill opposed the Nazis.](<a href=“Grammar Nazis - YouTube”>Grammar Nazis - YouTube) He got annoyed by their incessant corrections of his grammar.</p>

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<p>Love it Halogen!
(from Sue22, a dedicated grammar Nazi)</p>

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<p>Apparently it’s okay to do if you’re using the same verb twice.
[Grammarly</a> Handbook | Comma with Subjects and Verbs Grammar Rules](<a href=“http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/punctuation/comma/4/comma-with-subjects-and-verbs/]Grammarly”>http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/punctuation/comma/4/comma-with-subjects-and-verbs/)</p>

<p>Like if you had, “Those who learn history, learn not to repeat it” or something. I don’t know.</p>

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<p>I see what you’re saying, Heather; however, I’m talking more about sentences like, “My friend Whit, is a very crazy guy.”</p>

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<p>German goes comma-crazy, and even in German there wouldn’t be a comma there.
(Someone in my lab was reviewing a paper, and they could tell just from the abstract that it was written by Germans because there were almost as many commas as words.)</p>