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- What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992
- And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.
- Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), "Moby Dick"
- We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921
- How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), "Eloisa to Abelard"
- You have to forget about what other people say; when you're supposed to die, when you're supposed to be lovin'. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
- Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
- He that gives should never remember, he that receives should never forget.
- The Talmud
- Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
- However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source.
- Nigerian Proverb
- If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief.
- Bahya Ibn Paquda
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