Erase Quotes

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  One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

  Golda Meir

  Inspiration, Past, Trying

  "My Life". Book by Golda Meir, 1975.

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• The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Struggle, Book

  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 2 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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• Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

  Jane Yolen

  May, Doe, Scar

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• You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

  Ann Brashares

  I Hate You, Past, Opportunity

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.

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  Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Broken Heart, Forgiveness, Heartbroken

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

  Gary Chapman

  Past, Accepting

  Gary Chapman (2015). “The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages for Men Set”, p.42, Moody Publishers

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• I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

  Luis Miguel

  Mistake, Dark, Hard Times

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• You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Colorless

  "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 12, 2014.

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• It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Memories, Hard Times

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  The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

  Mick Jagger

  Clever, Regret, Past

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• The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear

  Thom Yorke

  Trying

  Song: The Eraser, Album: The Eraser, 2006

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• It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.

  Rene Balcer

  Memories, Artist, Collective Memory

  Speech to the "Central Academy of Fine Arts" in Beijing, December 8, 2009.

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  You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Forget, Knows, Who You Are

  Sandra Cisneros, Harold Bloom (2010). “The House on Mango Street (Bloom's Guides)”, p.52, Infobase Publishing

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• We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.

  Sharon Shinn

  Heart, Hands, Way

  Sharon Shinn (2016). “Jenna Starborn”, p.190, Hachette UK

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• You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Memories, Valuable

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• Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Silence, Way

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.

  Brennan Manning

  Healing, Past, Light

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• I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Life, Change, Regret

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• Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

  Ted Chiang

  Past, Repentance And Forgiveness, Atonement

  Ted Chiang (2007). “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate”, Subterranean

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• I saw your smile and my mind could not erase the beauty of your face.

  Richard Marx

  Romantic, Mind, Your Smile

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• Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mistake, Writing, Ignorance

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.17

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• Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, People, Doubt

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• Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my mind the thoughts that I am not good enough.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Not Good Enough, Mind, May

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 28, 2015

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• You can't erase a dream, you can only wake me up.

  Peter Frampton

  Dream

  Song: Lines On My Face, 1998

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