“ It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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“ The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. ”
- Tom Bodett- Copy
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“ It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we have still to make of a study of 'and.'. ”
- Ecclesiastes- Copy
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“ So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would, It doth forget to do the thing it should; And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted. ”
- De la Lastra’s Corollary- Copy
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“ Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
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“ Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. ”
- Thomas Bowdler- Copy
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“ If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today. ”
- Jessie Hill- Copy
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“ Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. ”
- William Arthur Ward- Copy
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“ Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. ”
- Adrian Mitchell- Copy
- 62
“ Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ”
- Henrik Tikkanen- Copy
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“ One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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