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• Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it and where it would be performed. So you can't really separate the creation of genius from the appreciation of it.

  Eric Weiner

  Appreciation, Writing, Genius

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• The music world taught me a lot.It taught me how much happiness it could take from you. J. Cole said it in that interview: People forget their happiness and what makes them happy. Like, what you really wanted to do it for.

  Fetty Wap

  People, World, Interviews

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You start to stress yourself out about the people around you. You start to think, like, "What do you really want from me?" And then you forget that you, at some point, asked them for something. At some point you needed them to take you in because you ain't had nowhere to go. And now you turn around and question their loyalty to you, and those were the only people loyal to you. The only people that really loved you are still there, and you tanked on them. I'll never let that happen.

  Fetty Wap

  Loyalty, Stress, Thinking

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• Iran has agreed to deepen our coordination as we work to locate Robert Levinson, missing from Iran for more than eight years. Even as we rejoice in the safe return of others, we will never forget about Bob. Each and every day our hearts are with the Levinson family, and we will not rest until their family is whole again.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Eight, Iran

  Statement by the President on Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 17, 2016.

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• My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, "Dancing In The Streets." You can't forget the Motor City. And we can't forget the Motor City.

  David Maraniss

  Cities, Dancing, Littles

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers.

  Manisha Sinha

  Rights, Movement, Grew

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so we can be where we are, and two, to just educate the newer generation. I'm being educated by all these films ['Race' and 'Selma'] and the things I've had the opportunity to be a part of, and kids even younger than me are being educated, too. It's important to make sure those stories never die.

  Stephan James

  Kids, Opportunity, Two

  "Stephan James on His Breakout Role as Jesse Owens in Race". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. February 16, 2016.

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• I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

  Selena Gomez

  Talking, Nervous, Happens

  "Selena Gomez Details Her Style ‘Revival’". Interview with Lauren McCarthy, wwd.com. October 7, 2015.

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• Let's not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls. Their parents were told: "You will never see them again. If you want to have children, go to your wife and make new ones." [Bashar] Assad's people rebelled. He crushed them brutally. But his military could not protect him. So he asked the Iranians to come in and help.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Children, Wall, Military

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about.

  Cate Blanchett

  Age, Digital, Knows

  "Cate Blanchett Knows You're Zooming in on Her Pores and She's Cool with It". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.marieclaire.com. February 29, 2016.

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• You know, no one should be marginalized in society when it comes to health. And, you know, we have - as a foundation, we have tried to champion those people [sex workers, needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes] and be by - be by their side and say, listen, these people cannot be forgotten. If you forget about them, then the disease is never going to go away.

  Elton John

  People, Champion, Going Away

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• Things are forgotten so fast today. Even if 1,000 people are slaughtered, the next day you forget. There has to be new news every day.

  Erro

  Next Day, People, News

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many people will first be attracted to veganism for their health but find themselves far more open to learning about the animal issues when they don't have to block them out three times a day in order to enjoy eating. Then once people learn, it is hard to forget and go back. Come for the body, stay for the soul.

  Karen Dawn

  Block, Animal, Issues

  "Animal Advocate and Author Karen Dawn: The Welfare of Animals and the Earth". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty, even a majestic countenance, but when it has "coupled hell" and become crime, it grows increasingly foul and sordid. We love and admire Hamlet so much at the beginning that we tend to forget that he is as hot-blooded as the earlier Macbeth when he kills Polonius and the King, cold-blooded as the later Macbeth or Iago when he sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to death.

  Harold Clarke Goddard

  Kings, Revenge, Ambition

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• What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.

  Muriel Beadle

  College, Students, Appearance

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• Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load - but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road.

  Patience Strong

  Adversity, Light, Sorrow

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• Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Letting Go, Real, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

  Tori Amos

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• As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Self, Cups, Service To Others

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• Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Matter, Never Forget, Certain

  "Dustin Hoffman and me" by John Burnham Schwartz, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.

  Pope Francis

  Father, Judging, People

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• A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.

  Timothy Leary

  Pain, Men, Justice

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• It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fall, Men, Principles

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.114

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• All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as
  equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to
  discover to you.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Believe, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

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• If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Forget You, Ifs, Universe

  "The Awakening Artist: Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art". Book by Patrick Howe, July 25, 2013.

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