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Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

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.]

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.

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything.

People do forget there is still a lot of nostalgia in Russia for the Soviet Union.

People don't forget. Nothing gets forgiven.

People forget that public people and celebrities, they too have to go to the bathroom and get divorced.

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.

People forget that after we get to our hotel rooms at night, we take a shower, we watch TV, eat room service and do normal things. Behind our image, we are still human beings.

People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have.

People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.

People love to make excuses, forget all the excuses, if it doesn't work out, failure is the best thing that can happen to somebody, people are extremely scared of failure.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

Probably writers should forget what it was like to write the last novel, and the one before that, and the one before that, or we should all be plumbers. It must be good to be a plumber. Everyone is happy to see you, and no one reviews your work.

Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.

Remember, once more how our world should be. And please, don't forget, please, please don't forget.

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

Real success is doing things right every day by not forgetting to express love to your friends.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

Reconciliation is one of the hardest words. We almost forget, but there's always a little group that can't.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

Salvation is one of the Bible's great words, but many don't understand that the Bible presents salvation in three stages. Many people consider salvation a one-time, past event. They forget its ongoing nature.

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.

Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria

Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

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.

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.