"We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men."
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"Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting."
"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius."
"Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death."
"It is better to forget about yourself altogether."
"Enjoy the questions because they open many doors. Forget the answers because they always change."
"The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life."
"I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget."
"I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine."
"A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost."
"O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)"
"The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others."
"We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!"
"All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great."
"Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am a marathon man."
"Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time."
"I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it."
"Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]"
"We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves."
"We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone."