- Nov 07, 2020
Forgetting Quotes
On what we let go of, and what stays.
These forgetting quotes range from playful to political, asking whether elegance is simply forgetting what one is wearing, and criticizing candidates who make promises then keep forgetting the Hispanic community after campaigns end.
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- Institution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every institution is perfectly capable of forgetting what it has learned in three years.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crime of loving is forgetting.
- Dust
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.
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- Nov 07, 2020