"He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later."
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"Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay."
"Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt - by forgetting."
"I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that."
"I like to act because I can forget about everything else."
"Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time."
"Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon."
"Forget all your learnings - just remember that NOW is the moment that never ends"
"We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally."
"Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes."
"Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble."
"There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you."
"They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them."
"As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed."
"it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with."
"Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance."
"Oh time...time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget."
"Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen."
"and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met"
"Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you."