Forgotten Quotes
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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.
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Citizens, not less generous than myself, let your most precious moments be employed in causing the past to be forgotten; let all my fellow-citizens swear never to recall the past; let them receive their misled brethren with open arms, and let them, in future, be on their guard against the traps of bad men.
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Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten.
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Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
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When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.
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The passion here is really for Liza. Because of everything she has been through, people have forgotten Liza the artist.
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One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.
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Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.
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When do you think people die? When they're shot through the heart with a pistol? ...No. When they have an uncurable disease? ...No. When they drink soup made from a poisonous mushroom? No! When they are forgotten! Even if I die, my dream will come true. The hearts of the people will be cured..!
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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
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Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.
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All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.
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We will be thankful and grateful. Not even the last thing that is done for us shall be forgotten.
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A lot of guys haven't forgotten. I think that's something that a lot of guys will use to motivate themselves this week.
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Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Like the time I threw out Pete Murphy of Bauhaus for saying those six immortal words to Slim when he'd forgotten his backstage pass: 'Don't you know who I am?
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What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
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do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation
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Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.
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One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.
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Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.
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By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.
