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• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  In Leo Rosten People I have Loved, Known or Admired (1970) "Groucho"

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• The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

  Claude Pepper

  Mistake, Memorable, Thinking

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• The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

  Mary Stewart

  Thinking, Way, Feels

  Mary Stewart (2011). “This Rough Magic”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Memories, Doe, Emotion

  "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Life, Stress, Lying

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• People change and forget to tell each other.

  Lillian Hellman

  Relationship, Change, Marriage

  Lillian Hellman (1960). “Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts”, Dramatist's Play Service

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• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

  Immanuel Kant

  Peace, War, Evil

  Carl Joachim Friedrich, Immanuel Kant (1969). “Inevitable peace”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Success, Education, Business

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• Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Pain, Long

  Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair "Poem 20" l. 28 (1924) (translation byW. S. Merwin)

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• The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Perspective, Perception, Looks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.21, Random House

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• How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Sunshine, Obscurity

  "Eloisa to Abelard" l. 207 (1717)

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• I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sports, Hate

  Quoted in Michael HobbsThe Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

  Johannes Tauler

  School, Humility, Men

  Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Afterlife, Infancy Is

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Forgiveness, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving

  Maria Edgeworth (1832). “Castle Rackrent: And Irish Bulls”, p.303

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• I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Strength, Strong, Warrior

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• The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Eruption, Losing, Realizing

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.244, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

  Arthur Koestler

  Art, Creativity, Originality

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Stress, Earth, Stress Free

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

  Paul Nitze

  Errors, Achievement, Trying

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• We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Boys, Simple, Energy

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• Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

  Albert J. Nock

  Culture, World, Pedants

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• Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

  Joyce Appleby

  Remember, Sanity, Well Being

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• I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!

  Judith Guest

  Who I Am, Mad, Remember

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• Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

  Diane Sawyer

  Technology, People, Interesting

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