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• If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

  Alexander Payne

  Falling In Love, Go Back In Time, Ifs

  "The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life Of Alexander Payne". Interview with Susan Stamberg, www.npr.org. February 24, 2012.

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• Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban wilderness and into the souls of our forgotten brothers. But Wrath James White hasn't forgotten about them--and after reading this book, neither will you.

  Brandon Massey

  Brother, Book, Reading

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• The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

  Norman Borlaug

  People, Population, World

  "The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity". Norman Borlaug's Nobel lecture in the auditorium of the Nobel Institute, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1970.

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• We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we anticipate the future with transcendental senses. In our sanest moments we find ourselves naturally expecting or prepared for far greater changes than any which we have experienced within the period of distinct memory, only to be paralleled by experiences which are forgotten.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memories, Believe, Past

  Henry David Thoreau (1968). “Reflections at Walden: Selected Writings”

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• The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

  Honore de Balzac

  Business, Political, Secret

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• The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.

  Peter Lynch

  School, America, Important

  Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (2012). “Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question, but one is never found without the other. All justified people are sanctified, and all sanctified people are justified. ... Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification. Boast not of Christ's work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit's work in you.

  J. C. Ryle

  People, Temptation, Together

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• Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Art, Strong, Memories

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1112, Delphi Classics

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• I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book

  Michael W. Smith

  Powerful, Book, Said

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• I have sometimes, probably, forgotten - and I know I have - to pat the back of someone or said thank you enough times or maybe even once sometimes I wish I were perfect. I wish I were just the nicest, nicest, nicest person on Earth. But I am a business person.If I were a man no one would ever say that I was arrogant.

  Martha Stewart

  Men, Perfect, Wish

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• Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

  Dion Fortune

  Use, Superstitions, Form

  Dion Fortune (2000). “The Training & Work of an Initiate”, p.88, Weiser Books

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• The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment, captive to impression, and nursed on action, not talk. It must be maintained hourly and can erode or be lost with a single act of failed nerve, despite all the braggadocio of threatened measures. And, once gone, the remedies needed for its restoration are always more expensive, deadly - and controversial - than would have been its simple maintenance.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Simple, President, Nerves

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• I want to set an example that will never be forgotten.

  Terry Fox

  Example, Want

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• Though your experience may indicate that God has forgotten you or has left you alone, He is on your side. He is the God of grace, and He is actively working on your behalf.

  John Townsend

  Your Side, Grace, May

  John Townsend (2012). “Where Is God?: Finding His Presence, Purpose and Power in Difficult Times”, p.22, Thomas Nelson

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• For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

  Anita Brookner

  Known

  Anita Brookner (2012). “Look at Me”, p.9, Vintage

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• The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...

  Konrad Lorenz

  Play, Decision, Humanity

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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• Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.

  Gianni Vattimo

  Law, Data, Pirate

  Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala (2014). “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”, p.93, Columbia University Press

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• Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Psychology, Essentials, Sometimes

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• Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  People, Inheritance, Monkeys

  "A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1931.

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• I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The 'miraculous' was a penetration into this unknown reality.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Reality, Long, Labyrinth

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• The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

  Tacitus

  Evil, Office, Deeds

  "Annales" (AD 117), III. 65,

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• I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

  Lloyd Bentsen

  Government, Eagles, Careers

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• This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

  Marion Woodman

  Grief, Joy, Body

  Marion Woodman (2001). “Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul”, p.49, Conari Press

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• It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

  Bill W.

  Spiritual, Religious, Acceptance

  Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.32, Hazelden Publishing

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• To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

  Elin Hilderbrand

  Late

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