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“It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His editor cabled back: Forget flood. Interview God.”

Stories Shows Bigs Kids Today Young Forget Missing Humour Destruction Presses Noses Sat Interviews Covered Editors Legends Flood Reporters Journalistic Overlooking

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

“Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.”

Forget Dignity Destruction Gambling Modesty Gaming Decorum

Author:Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.”

Has Beens Forget Leader Weapons Mass Concerned Destruction Iraq Decades Developing Consideration Resolution Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction

Author:Donald Evans

“It was important for me to show that Beirut and Lebanon were once the pearl of the Middle East. Beirut was once called the Paris of the Middle East and to have that feeling of a destroyed place that once was beautiful and glamorous and visually impressive was important. I think it's even sadder to get the feeling that this country, and indeed the whole Middle East, could have been a major force in the world if people would get together and forget about destruction, death and wars. But unfortunately, it's not happening yet.”

People Thinking World Important War Country Feelings Together Beautiful Forget Destruction Impressive Glamorous

Author:Eran Riklis

“They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.”

Art Growth Forget Known Destruction Increase Establishment Investigation

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Galileo Galilei (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Galileo Galilei (Illustrated)

“The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.”

Freedom Forget Liberty Destruction Tyranny Presidential Never Forget

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.”

Thinking Enough Hands Bigs Lasts Turns Space Forget Pleasure Flower Destruction Breaths Rounds Gentle Obsessed Weed Rejoice Brushes Gardener Reformers Sadistic

Author:Freya Stark

“Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace.”

Way Self Forget Environment Self Love Clothes Destruction Eternity Making Love Our Environment Forget You Self Destruction

Author:Yayoi Kusama

“If Europe thinks Jews will return to the days where we were forced to mark our products - you can forget it. De-legitimization of parts of Israel by Europe is the new anti-Semitism. The old anti-Semitism led to the destruction of our people in gas chambers. We will not allow the new anti-Semitism to hurt us.”

People Ifs Thinking Hurt Forget Products Return Europe Destruction Mark Jew Israel Gas Chamber Forget It Anti Semitism Gas Chambers

Author:Ayelet Shaked