#forgot

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#been #days #death #elderly #experience

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#coined #day #dream #forgot #good

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government. ↗

— Edward Norton

#forgot #government #i #like #proud

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

#body #considered #culture #define #forgotten

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#apartheid #attempt #black #both #doomed

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys. ↗

— John Thorn

#connected #dream #forgotten #men #never

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#constant #desire #development #forgotten #had

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ancient times #cats #forgotten #gods #times

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. ↗

— Erica Jong

#i #like #most #ones #rave

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#college #forgot #graduate #i