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Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

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Albert J. Nock

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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will – are all gone.

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Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people… have to walk out of the shadows.

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April 21, 2024

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people… have to walk out of the shadows.

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April 21, 2024

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will – are all gone.

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