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Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Culture Diligent Forgetting Learning Must Otherwise Pedantry Process

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Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Concerning Culture Forgetting Great Learning Many Means Necessary Process Say Them Then Things Would

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Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Always Been Culture Established Expense Forgetting Itself Learning Made Modern Modern World Much Pedantry Pretty Therefore Throughout Well World

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The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

~Alexander Pope

Topics: Forgetting Forgot World

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

~Alexander Pope

Topics: Blameless Forgetting Forgot Happy How Lot World

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I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.

~Alija Izetbegovic

Topics: Earlier Forgetting Hardship Life Revenge Took

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The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.

~Alycia Debnam-Carey

Topics: Apart Falls Forgetting History In The Past Moment Past Start World You

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It's all about being comfortable, forgetting there's a microphone in front of you.

~Anderson East

Topics: About Being Comfortable Forgetting Front Microphone You

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I can be like that: forgetting how hard it was to do something after I'm past it.

~Andrea Seigel

Topics: After Forgetting Hard How Like Past Something I Can

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I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team.

~Antonio Davis

Topics: Back Ball Been Bit Floor Forgetting Get Going Here Just Know Little Little Bit Lost Make Now Out Out Here Running Shooting Sure Team Try

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