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• There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.

  William Saroyan

  Pride, Men, Knowing

  William Saroyan (1992). “The Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories”, p.141, New Directions Publishing

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• Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.

  Charley Reese

  Law, Justice, Judging

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• When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.

  Denis Diderot

  Book, Dark, Talent

  'Oeuvres complètes' (Complete Works), Volume 7, p. 678,

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• What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Sunset, Glasses

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• If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?

  Hosea Ballou

  Heaven, Done, World

  "Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1854.

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• All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.

  Samuel Beckett

  Running, Moving, Thinking

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Unnamable”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still dimly remembered, like a reminiscence of some previous state of existence. It is at once familiar and strange.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Dream, Feelings, Half

  Joseph Fort Newton (1922). “Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship”

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• As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Teacher, Pain, Home

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner 'censor'.

  Jim Holt

  Dream, Mean, Common

  Jim Holt (2008). “Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in which case I’ve begun to feel some jagged little pains shooting down my left forearm and into the base of the thumb.

  Roger Angell

  Couple, Pain, Past

  "This Old Man" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. February 17 & 24, 2014.

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• The quality will remain when the price is forgotten.

  Henry Royce

  Quality

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• When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.

  Howard Zinn

  Fall, Challenges, Roles

  "Are We Politicians or Citizens?" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. May 1, 2007.

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• Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life.

  Nick Farr-Jones

  Appreciation, Sacrifice, Player

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• I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?

  George Eliot

  Spring, Eye, Would Be

  George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.71

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• The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.

  Willa Cather

  Artist, Men, Long

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.26, U of Nebraska Press

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• Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Peace, War, Clubs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chase Salmon Osborn, Stellanova Osborn (1944). “"Hiawatha".: with its original Indian legends, compiled, with essays on its authentic background of lake Superior country and Chippewa Indians”

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• A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Lesson Learned, Muzzle, Lessons

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Book, Likes, Forget

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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• That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy, but it does mean an awareness of influences that touch our lives, sometimes in ways that seem cruel and unfeeling, and sometimes in ways that open up a glory which can never be forgotten.

  Robertson Davies

  Mean, Heart, Way

  Robertson Davies (1999). “Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre”, Penguin Group USA

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• The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Heart, Rivers, Water

  Hilaire Belloc (1962). “Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse”

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• I actually will always stop and watch [Friends episodes], not for the whole thing, but usually because I've forgotten a lot of the episodes. It's sort of fun for a second, I'm like, what's this one? And sometimes it comes back to me. I always know what year it was by what length my hair was or what color.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Fun, Hair, Color

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• I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.

  Claude McKay

  Blood, Red, December

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• Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Summer, Nature, Past

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.6, e-artnow

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• The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung to this single, illusory belief that we've almost forgotten the real truth about happiness. So busy are we trying to deserve happiness that we no longer have much time for ideas such as: Happiness is natural, happiness is a birthright, happiness is free, happiness is a choice, happiness is within, and happiness is being. The moment you believe that happiness has to be deserved, you must toil forevermore.

  Robert Holden

  Pain, Real, Believe

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.100, Hay House, Inc

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• Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

  Jose Bergamin

  Ignorance, Innocence

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