We have to forget the past if we want to rebuild this country.
Ambivalent at best, nationalistic at worst, the national consensus about Japan's wartime actions is to forget the past -- or deny it ever happened.
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He acknowledged that no-one should forget the struggles and suffering of the Zimbabwean people, adding that he, as a victim of beatings and arrests, would be the last to forget the past.
It is our lot on this continent to forever be urged to forget the past when such a past is so near and is as tangible as a four year old's skull in a medical laboratory far from African lands.
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He literally changed his name from Ryszard Kossobudzki to Richard Cosby and tried to sort of forget the past.
Like the Republicans of the 1920s, the Bush Republicans were determined to forget rather than build upon the past.
Christopher Dell, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, says people tend to forget how bad conditions were in the past.
However even Martin McGuinness's supporters aren't asking the Irish electorate to forget about everything their man has done in the past.
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Oklahomans have never been the kind to dwell on the past, but we won't forget the 168 people who died in the blast on April 19 and those who bravely survived.
There are 31 episodes to find out whether the couple can forget the past and make a go of their love.
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
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They forget how they reacted to extreme markets in the past, and instead make investment decisions based on how they feel today.
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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.
By sticking with its old guard, the PRD is making it impossible for voters to forget its past missteps.
This means it should forget about the past and focus on where it needs to go.
This is true, but investors forget or are too young to know that in the past shares have fallen in real terms over prolonged periods.
Forget 200%-plus returns and get used to the 25% range of the past, he says.
National reconciliation does mean forget about the past and let us dedicate everything, in fact, to the future.
We promise to see whether they, whether the administration broke the law or violated any laws, and now what it seems to be saying is that, well, you know, forget about what happened in the past.
The paintings recall a violent past that many in east Belfast are keen to forget.
Never forget, in the past, the Labour Party wasn't seen as relevant to the concerns of the public.
"The city is getting more sophisticated, but people don't want to forget about its past, " says Stefan Sklaroff, who just opened a 10, 000-square-foot, two-level modern-furniture store called Cella Luxuria in a 19th-century brick building downtown.
Mining and steel communities, to be blunt, will neither forgive nor forget, however often they are chided to reflect upon the leadership of their own cause or the underlying nature of past, industrialised Scotland.
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