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I have an amazing ability to forget. -- Gene Mauch
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature. -- Phyllis McGinley
The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good. -- Joe Biden
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. -- Elbert Hubbard
Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good. -- Varlam Shalamov
It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of time, that frees us from the circumstances of our past. -- Richard Carlson
People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time. -- W. G. Sebald
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual. -- C. S. Lewis
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically." -- Joseph Roth
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate." -- Hubert H. Humphrey
I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the line. It seemed to me during the 2000 election recount that the media's narrative was being orchestrated. Shockingly, after the Supreme Court decision, the media simply said, "Time to move on," end of reporting: "Here's the new story." And everyone forgot. -- Robert Kane Pappas
If we forget what used to be, then we've lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings. -- Maya Lin
We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you. -- Christina Ricci
Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do. -- Jean-Paul Belmondo
Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it. -- Madeline Kahn
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember. -- Karl Kraus
Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves. -- Jonathan Carroll

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