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- What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars fortell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we have still to make of a study of 'and.'
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
- Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Every divine promise is built upon four pillars; God's justice or holiness, which will not suffer Him to deceive; His grace or goodness, which will not suffer Him to forget; His truth, which will not suffer Him to change; and His power, which makes Him able to accomplish.
- Salter
- The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
- Author Unknown
- What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
- Alfred Mercier
- Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
- Jawaharal Nehru
- Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
- Annie Besant
- Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.
- Mary Lyon
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