We barely agree on what we should remember rather than forget, and we share no common understanding of what form our memories should take.

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Like the Republicans of the 1920s, the Bush Republicans were determined to forget rather than build upon the past.

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The middle classes would prefer to forget about this situation, rather than pay more taxes to rectify it.

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Forget about perfection this is a process rather than an event, he added.

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In fact, we have become so accustomed to the tranquility and prosperity the continent has known for the past half-century that most of us forget that such conditions are very much the exception there, rather than the rule.

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Such first-hand accounts can do more than any number of speeches and statistics to illuminate a bafflingly complex conflict about which most foreigners would rather forget.

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