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• There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Men, Here And There

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.31, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.

  Julie Berry

  Love, Baptism, Soldier

  Julie Berry (2013). “All the Truth That's In Me”, p.67, Penguin

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• Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Names, Should

  Isabel Allende, William Knowlton Zinsser (1989). “Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Zen Buddhist, Zen Life

  "Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings with Selections from Traditional Commentaries".

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• To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.

  Theda Bara

  Actresses, Remember, Oblivion

  "The Confessions of Theda Bara" by Agnes Smith, Photoplay Magazine, Vol. 18 No. 1 (pp. 57 - 58, 110 - 111), June 1920.

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• Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure. Fragrance must be introduced properly. A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Signatures, Dresses

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• What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you

  Wanda Rutkiewicz

  Climbing, Behind You, Remember

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• Living where I live New York I don't think anyone's going to make a fuss. But it is more deeply satisfying because it's of your place and means that you aren't forgotten; someone's noticed what you have been doing with your life.

  Peter Carey

  Art, New York, Mean

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• Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Science, Men, Long

  George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.35, New York : C. Scribner

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• Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Enemy, Looks, Wages

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• A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Dust, Community, Honor

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• I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured face, is a goitre, a hump on the back, webbed toes, and makes me stink like the night-man. Once again I learn what I knew on my very first day at Kensington School, and have carelessly forgotten, that it is more intelligent to appear less intelligent. I henceforth rein myself in, and publicly give back only what I have been given - fifty-six for seven- eights.

  Hal Porter

  Education, Learning, School

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• But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall in piles on my desk, they stack behind me on my shelves, they surprise me every time I look for one and find ten more I had forgotten about. I love their covers, their weight and their substance. And like the child I was, with the key to the world that reading gave me, it is still exciting for me to find a new book, open it at the first page and plunge in, head first, heart deep.

  Ramona Koval

  Education, Children, Book

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• Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Taken, Blessing, Granted

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• Give me Your eyes for just one second, Give me Your eyes so I can see, Everything that I keep missing, Give me Your love for humanity, Give me Your arms for the broken-hearted, The ones that are far beyond my reach, Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten, Give me Your eyes so I can see

  Brandon Heath

  Heart, Eye, Broken

  Song: Give Me Your Eyes, Album: What If We, 2008

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• Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the many battles that followed in World War II. Their sacrifice was for a cause, not for conquest; for a world that would be safe for future generations. Their devotion must never be forgotten.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Sacrifice, Honor

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.1598, Best Books on

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• You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Hands, Realising

  "Letters to a Young Poet".

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• For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago.

  R. A. Torrey

  Philosophy, Book, Men

  Charles Leach, R. A. Torrey “Our Bible: How We Got It and Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible is the Word of God”, Moody Publishers

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• The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Powerful, Men, Needs

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation”, p.514

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• It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, People, Tragedy

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• Be phenomenal or be forgotten!

  Eric Thomas

  Phenomenal

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2015

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• Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past,
  given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.

  Robert Holdstock

  Memories, Past, New Life

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• I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.

  Claudia Rankine

  Body

  Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

  Bradley Cooper

  Valentines Day, Valentine's Day, Remember

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• I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part.

  Timberlake Wertenbaker

  Thinking, Years, People

  Timberlake Wertenbaker (2002). “Plays”

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