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• Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

  Debby Applegate

  Style, Stories, Research

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• Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.

  Sarah Winman

  Inspirational, Life, Long

  Sarah Winman (2011). “When God Was a Rabbit: A Novel”, p.108, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Many have forgotten what we came here for,
  Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor.
  Just growin' not known' about your past...
  Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.

  Chuck D

  Stupid, Rap, Past

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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• When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Regret, Night, Trying

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.399, Pan Macmillan

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• This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Taken, Men, Rights

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.203

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• Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fate, Arrogance, World

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.49

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• Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.

  Rumi

  God, Unity, Remember

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

  Austin O'Malley

  Children, Teaching, Ifs

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• That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Art, Real

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• Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees?

  Ani DiFranco

  Fall, Knees, Proud

  Song: Ain't That The Way, Album: Revelling / Reckoning, 2001

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• He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an object of scorn and derision, an outsider, secretly loathed and ridiculed by everyone who met him, even by those few who professed to love him.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, People, Different

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• Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full of unpleasant contents, a compound of long-hidden truths, closeted, buried, forgotten. When I went looking, I was playing a desperate game of hide-and-seek, fearful of what I might find, most afraid that I would find nothing.

  Doris Grumbach

  Self, Games, Space

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• Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Jobs, People, Entrepreneur

  "Malcolm Gladwell On Why History Will Remember Bill Gates And Forget Steve Jobs". www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may be the last opportunity to choose our own and our descendants’ destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world.

  John Holdren

  Opportunity, Destiny, Choices

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• Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

  Martin Luther

  Ugly, Pages, American History

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• Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Listening, Ministry

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.76, SCM Press

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• Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Pyramids, Deeds, Stones

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• Children know something that most people have forgotten.

  Keith Haring

  Children, People, Knows

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.130, Penguin

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• We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

  Anne Enright

  Art, Small Gestures, Body

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.128, Random House

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• But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Morning, Hands, Looks

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• When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we spend together at the kitchen table, the more how-to books appear in the stores and on our bookshelves. But reading such books is a very different thing than listening to someone' s lived experience. Because we have stopped listening to each other we may even have forgotten how to listen, stopped learning how to recognize meaning and fill ourselves from the ordinary events of our lives. We have become solitary; readers and watchers rather than sharers and participants.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Book, Reading, Kitchen

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Penguin

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• Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Mean, Ends

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.71, Crown Business

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• I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.

  Miriam Makeba

  One Day, Looks, Obstacles

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• Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.

  William Peter Blatty

  Eye, Men, Sun

  William Peter Blatty (2011). “The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

  Washington Irving

  Age, Library, Buckets

  Washington Irving (2009). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.”, p.109, Modern Library

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