Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...runlet from one ear to another. I do not want to seem to undervalue meetings like these where people come together to hear someone holding forth as I am holding forth now, but I believe there is a great deal too much of it. People hear something and forget it; it would be much better for them to think for themselves. The lack of great writers is due to the lack of a great thinking public behind them...
...Taft administration when, the latter's Secretary of Interior, Ballinger, leased the Alaska coal fields to the Guggenheims. Of course, the guilt or innocence of the parties connected with the scandal is of great importance but, if these men are ultimately found innocent, the people, nevertheless, will not forget that the present administration has assumed to follow a course that would sacrifice their welfare to private interests. The Democratic Party is going to see to it that they remember what the administration has done. That is why the head of or anyone connected with the administration cannot be elected...
...World atmosphere. They liked it well enough to stay and to invite their friends to join them. Since that date it has been the fashion for prominent Englishmen to come, at least once in a lifetime, to pass judgment on America. England has never been able to forget that America is "new". As this is actually the case, one can hardly blame her for reflecting, like the Stoics, that youth is "the time of passion, when wisdom is not attainable." And when Mr. Zangwill charges us with moral callousness in our attitude towards prohibition, and what...
...other nations scraping their names, traditions, culture and all; and she has been paid the natural reward of world ill-will. Missionary religions in their cook sureness about the superiority of their faiths over those of others often tend to fall into the traps of the Bolshevik attitudes. They forget the distintion between evangelization and conversion...
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