#forgotten

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten. ↗

— James Buchan

#economic #events #forgotten #getting #getting older

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. ↗

— James Buchan

#antiquity #commerce #cycle #famine #feast

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#era #forgotten #great #jobs #people

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#because #die #forgotten #ideas #languages

I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten. ↗

— Pamela Harriman

#bad #forgotten #i #me #rather

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#brought #chosen #courage #fact #forgotten

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!" ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#chap #clothes #forgotten #had #his

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when." ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#clothes #forgotten #had #her #into

With intellectual labor your hard work is forever, while with manual labor your hard work is temporary and soon forgotten.
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— Jarod Kintz

#forgotten #hard-work #intellect #intellectual #labor

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#also #assume #attention #aware #because