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• He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, May, Causes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.293

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• I wish I was in de land ob cotton,
  Ole times dar am not forgotten,
  Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land!
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  Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
  In Dixie Land I'll take my stand
  To lib and die in Dixie.

  Dan Emmett

  Land, Patriotism, Wish

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• I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known only by collectors, and finally a rediscovered artist who is finally recognized as a creative giant misunderstood in his own time. Then forgotten again. But if I get removed from the list, it'll probably be because there are just too many damn good writers out there, and any poll of some assortment of editors is going to come up with an equally valid, equally varied list.

  Daryl Gregory

  Fall, Writing, Artist

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• Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.

  Al Purdy

  Time, Fall, Autumn

  1962 Poems forAll theAnnettes,'Pause' (revised1968).

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• Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.

  Anna Halprin

  Dance, Nature, Long

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• The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

  Louise Otto-Peters

  Inspirational, Women, Thinking

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• It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Skills, Roots, Racism

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• Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Animal, Men, People

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• A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Memories, Regret, Grief

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• I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Funny, Happiness

  Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1979). “The Hesburgh Papers: Higher Values in Higher Education”

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• It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us.

  Stephen Charnock

  Atheist, Men, Thinking

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• We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Humility, Heart

  "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln".

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• It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation, enjoy it! Don't let someone else's negative energy control you!).

  Robin Meade

  Being Yourself, Gossip, Energy

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• Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

  Milarepa

  Buddhist, Compassion, Differences

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• One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.

  Bobby Jones

  Struggle, Golf, Years

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.

  Gloria Steinem

  Teacher, School, Justice

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, Freedom

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• There are interesting times. The game is more fun when you are experimenting. One day yuor great, the next day scatterlog. But your learning. No that's not right. I probably have forgotten more about golf than I will ever learn. What you do is remember some of the things you thought you would never forget.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fun, Golf, Games

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• A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

  Brander Matthews

  Education, Latin, Humorous

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• My heart is a garden tired with autumn,
  Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark,
  In the hazy sunshine, the garden remembers April,
  The drench of rains and a snow-drop quick and clear as a spark;
  Daffodils blowing in the cold wind of morning,
  And golden tulips, goblets holding the rain -
  The garden will be hushed with snow, forgotten soon, forgotten -
  After the stillness, will spring come again?

  Sara Teasdale

  Morning, Spring, Rain

  Sara Teasdale, “The Garden”

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• There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, War, Be Prepared

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Army, Blessing

  Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.331, Рипол Классик

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• That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.

  Paul Fleischman

  Home, Garden, Circles

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• The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world.

  Enos Mills

  Garden, Tree, Peaceful

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• Just because someone is single doesn't mean they're lonely. Some people are in relationships and they've forgotten what happiness is.

  Drake

  Cute, Lonely, Mean

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