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• We cannot forgive, because that means forgetting also.
  If we forget, then we're doomed, because the past will creep back to poison our future....
• Things move so fast today that we sometimes get the feeling our solutions may be obsolete before we can get them worked out.
• Without the faculty of forgetting our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it.
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -- and to let go.
  It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives....
• We must beware of whatever insights we have into ourselves.
  Our self-knowledge annoys and paralyzes our daimon - this is where we should look for the reason Socrates wrote nothing....
• We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,--our retrospection will be all to the future.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iv, Sc. 2...
• I realize that the MX missile is none of our concern.
  I realize that the whole point of living in a democracy is that we pay professional congresspersons to concern themselves with things like the MX missile so we can be free to concern ourselves with getting hold of the plumber....
• I realize that the MX missile is none of our concern.
  I realize that the whole point of living in a democracy is that we pay professional congresspersons to concern themselves with things like the MX missile so we can be free to concern ourselves with getting hold of the plumber....