“This old familiar craving.
I've been here before, this way of behaving.
Don't know who the hell I'm saving anymore.
Let it pass, let it go, let it leave.
From the deepest place I grieve.
This time I believe
And I let go…”

— Peter Gabriel

Love to Be Loved
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

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English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950

Traudl Junge (1920–2002) secretary to Adolf Hitler

As quoted in her obituary in The Guardian (14 February 2002) http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/feb/14/guardianobituaries.humanities.

“Let me know, Iain."
"Let you know what?"
"If you're going to keep her or not."
"And if I'm not?"
"Then I am.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: The Secret

“The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“Does anyone come back from this? I don't know the answer to that, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let this destroy me.”

Paul Reubens (1952) American actor, writer, film producer, game show host, and comedian

2004 interview with Entertainment Weekly
2004 Child Porn Charges

“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage — and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
The quote "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans" is one of seven quotes inscribed on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery. http://www.jfklibrary.org/Researchold/Ready-Reference/JFK-Miscellaneous-Information/Grave-Inscription.aspx One can see it inscribed on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery.
1961, Inaugural Address

“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Reported as being the words of President Trump recorded in a memo that James Comey, FBI Director at the time, wrote shortly after a meeting held in the Oval Office on 14 February 2017, referring to the federal investigation into links to the Russian government of national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, who had resigned the day before. In a statement, the White House has denied the version of events in the memo. — New York Times (16 May 2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html
Comey confirmed under oath his account of Trump's words while appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/senate-hearing-transcript.html (8 June 2017)
When asked about Comey's testimony during a press conference on 9 June 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hplM_DYp-Vk, Trump said, "I didn't say that. I will tell you I didn't say that. And there'd be nothing wrong if I did say it according to everybody that I've read today, but I did not say that."
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