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• If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wise, Successful, Pity

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.248, Penguin

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• My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.

  Rajneesh

  Moon, Looks, Worship

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• Who could forget Malcolm Devon?

  Ted Dexter

  Devon

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• The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember.

  Shimon Peres

  Brother, Holocaust, Warning

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• People forget that I was married. I love that, Will he get married? I don't talk about it because I don't think about it. I don't ever question other peoples' versions of how they live their lives or what they do.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, People, Married

  "George Clooney: What I've Learned". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Usually I don't think much in terms of interesting sounds. Although I think I want to get one of those whammy pedals, I forget what it's called and who makes it. It's got a whole bunch of different settings. You can play a note and it will raise the pitch when you push the pedal.

  Mike Gordon

  Thinking, Play, Interesting

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• We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.

  Thomas Merton

  Self, Needs, Firsts

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.248, Shambhala Publications

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• A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.

  Mark Nepo

  Pain

  Mark Nepo (2015). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.

  Max Beckmann

  Summer, Spring, Grief

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• Our relationship with the followers of Islam has taken on great importance, since they are now significantly present in many traditionally Christian countries, where they can freely worship and become fully a part of society. We must never forget that they "profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, who will judge humanity on the last day".

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Country, Taken

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.69, BookBaby

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• In this work (peace building), the role of religion is fundamental. It is not possible to build bridges between people while forgetting God, ... But the converse is also true: it is not possible to establish true links with God while ignoring other people. Hence it is important to intensify dialogue among the various religions, and I am thinking particularly of dialogue with Islam.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Bridges, People

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• Don't slip into the traps, and don't forget about your 'hood, the kids in the 'hood. Remember, you're disposable, so take advantage while you can.

  Isaac Hayes

  Kids, Remember You, Remembers You

  "New Inductees Take Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Into the Punk Era" by Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. March 19, 2002.

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• I think I realised, at teachers' training school, that I felt that the culture that I came from, the Sámi culture, was not good enough, so I wanted to be Norwegian or European, I wanted to forget the culture. And then this music started to... in a way I had to ask myself "why is this, and what does all this come from?

  Mari Boine

  Teacher, School, Thinking

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• If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

  Ray Bradbury

  Girl, Boys, Asks

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I feel that if entertainment is that important, the media, then it's my duty, not only to mankind but to God, to fulfill the promise that I carry on this work. If someone, for instance, can forget their pains and their ills and their strife by watching any performer then I think this work is worthwhile.

  Liberace

  Pain, Thinking, Media

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• I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Names, Apples

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• Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.

  Paul Reed Smith

  Giving, Twenties, Dollars

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• I kind of forget what it's like to be a dude who grew up in the south sometimes. I want to refresh my memory and remember why I love it [there] so much.

  Drake

  Memories, Want, Kind

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

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• We consider the Holocaust as being a sort of strange event taking place on another planet; we never understood in a visceral way that this is something that took place in the heart of man. That's something that you can feel, the genocidal tendency is within human nature. It seems that if we forget about this, our future is also compromised.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Heart, Men, Holocaust

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, I mean that was the basis.

  Frank Stella

  Mean, Way, Paint

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

  John Travolta

  Firsts, Money And Power, Shows

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• My album was recorded in Nashville. It used to be all about "We're from Texas, forget Nashville," well you'll never hear me say that. Nashville isn't bad as long as you're true to yourself.

  Cody Johnson

  Texas, Nashville, Long

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• And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

  Jonny Lang

  People, Age

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• Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for trying to be less. It's become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance.

  Abel Bonnard

  Giving, Trying, Mediocrity

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• A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

  Bernard Meltzer

  True Friend, Believe, Thinking

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