“When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.”

— Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

27 Parliamentary History, 680; Annual Register, 1789. Wilkes is reported to have replied, somewhat coarsely, but not unhappily it must be allowed, "Forget you! He ’ll see you damned first". Edmund Burke also exclaimed, "The best thing that could happen to you!" —Henry Peter, Lord Brougham, Statesmen of the Time of George III (Thurlow).

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“Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, to-night!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.

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That I my thoughts may dim;
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Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
Never.”

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“When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget… So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.”

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“If my wife said, I’m not going to be a communist, I’d say, well, forget it, by God, I’ll forget you too.”

Jim Jones (1931–1978) founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple

" http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q265.html" FBI No. Q265 (17 October 1978)

“That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

“No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”

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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

There is no evidence that Franklin said this. Scholars believe the saying comes from the Xunzi.
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http://dakinburdick.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/tell-me-and-i-forget/
http://www.quora.com/History/Where-and-when-did-Benjamin-Franklin-say-Tell-me-and-I-forget-teach-me-and-I-may-remember-involve-me-and-I-learn
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“When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.”

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