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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Been Body Considered Culture Define Forgotten Knowledge Large May Now Possession Truly Useless Useless Knowledge Well

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Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Another Away Because Being Confuse Ear Forgotten Get Matter Mistakes Music Now Often Playing Recorded Still Us Writing

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The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

~Albion W. Small

Topics: About Become Facts Finding Forgotten Historians How Latter Learned Make Much Quarrel Skilled Truths Use Worth Would

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Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Topics: Because Cartoon Compassion Dignity Figures Films Forgotten Guided Humanity Japanese Like Lot Making Me Mere Morocco Normally Place Poor Portrayed Things Two Victims Words

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Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

~Alessandro Michele

Topics: City Contemporary Energy Forgotten Piece Something Westminster World

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Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Apart Cloud Coming Constantly Elephants Emotional Feeling Forgotten Highly Immediately Lasting Longer Moment Out Over Overhead Than Whatever

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If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: About Back Banal Could Day Did Falling Falling In Love Forgotten Go Looking Love Relive See Things Time Weep Were You

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To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she's not forgotten in this crazy world - that's why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up.

~Alicia Keys

Topics: Able Bronx Crazy Crazy World Dreams Follow Forgotten Got Ground Help Her Involved Just Kid Know Letting She Up Why World

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Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

~Allen West

Topics: Across American Country Day Fallen Forgotten Graves Ignored Many Meaning Memorial Neglected Nowadays Sadly Traditions Worse

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We do need unity, and from my perspective as a minister myself, God has not forgotten America.

~Alveda King

Topics: America Forgotten God Minister Myself Need Perspective Unity

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