I mean you are butchering my name insofar as my forgetfulness yet it was your forgetfulness that has us here!!!!
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But a lot of things besides Alzheimer's can cause forgetfulness.
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Don't let laziness or forgetfulness cause you to waste money.
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We walk around on a carapace of ignorance and forgetfulness.
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For Elie, human evil festered in a climate of forgetfulness.
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Consolidating everything into one list can eliminate disorganization and forgetfulness.
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The audience, realizing Carson's forgetfulness was intentional, started to boo.
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But Alma thought it smelled like dreams, forgetfulness and Coppertone.
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Forgetfulness nips at the heels of even the most successful leaders.
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In good times, a kind of forgetfulness falls over the land.
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There is an acute lack of forgetfulness in you about Vietnam.
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Mercury retrograde sucks for the obvious reasons: miscommunications, technical difficulties, and forgetfulness.
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The forgetfulness hasn't happened naturally; there is something insidious behind the phenomenon.
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This forgetfulness will only get worse when the school year comes around.
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To keep forgetfulness from leading to delinquency, you can automate your payments.
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Cheeky video essayist exurb1a uses human forgetfulness to explain the concept of determinism.
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He does not understand the importance of his forgetfulness, but I understand it.
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We see the consequences of this forgetfulness across all sorts of policy issues.
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The symptoms of Parkinson's disease started a few years after the forgetfulness began.
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"That's the main symptoms, and, forgetfulness," he said in his interview with CBS.
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In general, the symptoms of brain fog include forgetfulness, slowed thinking, and trouble concentrating.
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New research suggests that far from being an exception, Louisiana's forgetfulness is the rule.
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Such ghoulish affairs should never slip into forgetfulness, but in our family they do.
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A little forgetfulness is unavoidable as we age, but Muniz is just 31 years old.
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There's a metaphysical whiplash in how quickly alarm turns into acceptance and then into forgetfulness.
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He saw it for an instant and then forgetfulness came, affording him its useful distance.
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That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
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Thanks to internet hacks, our summer picnics no longer have to be ruined by that forgetfulness.
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Other nations fetishize the past, rewrite it in blood; America's genius is the facilitation of forgetfulness.
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" A 1969 ad for Lyndiol urged doctors to "protect the new patient from her own forgetfulness.
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I apologize if I have ever hurt you through neglect or not taking notice, or forgetfulness.
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Below the presidential level, there seems to be a similar forgetfulness about the brewing nuclear conflict.
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This speed is bought, however, at the cost of the forgetfulness that makes a separate memory essential.
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"That's when you start to realize -- OK, yeah, the rage, the forgetfulness, the identity crisis," he said.
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So I like the idea of this word that contains forgetfulness and imprisonment at the same time.
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One way I combat my own forgetfulness is by setting up online auto-pay whenever I can.
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Just watch out for scheduling difficulties or forgetfulness as you travel to new and exciting places, Libra.
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That forgetfulness can change the course of entire lives, the most serious vulnerability of memory, he added.
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And in almost all cases, they say, the action is a matter of distraction and simple forgetfulness.
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And the patient's spell of forgetfulness lasted eight to 10 hours once he arrived at the hospital.
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My father's forgetfulness began after he was essentially trapped in his home, and it worsened over time.
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One possible explanation is that forgetfulness may not be why patients don't take their medications as prescribed.
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Committing to this cord means we live in fear of our own forgetfulness, like flowers on an anniversary.
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The real issue here is one of misplaced confidence and forgetfulness, and there's no notification for memory loss.
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From this point on, the specter of women's "forgetfulness" stubbornly attached itself to the discourse around birth control.
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A rep for Jason of Beverly Hills said the idea for the ring came out of the designer's forgetfulness.
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" In response to such policies of forgetfulness, Nguyen says the writer must aim for "a complex ethics of memory.
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Presidents in a mournful procession of forgetfulness have misplaced the nuclear codes as well as their bag-carriers repeatedly.
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Though often I wish I could forget, Mr. Jackson, Freddie Jackson, that endless simultaneity, recover those flurries of forgetfulness.
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But it's mostly the act itself that brings relief, the self-forgetfulness, the diving and plunging into other lives.
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Some of them are experiencing the usual mental difficulties of old age, like forgetfulness or a dwindling attention span.
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This collective forgetfulness is even more puzzling in light of a central preoccupation of ancient chroniclers, the communication of risk.
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This is an incredibly powerful way to tap into your own creativity and combat the natural forgetfulness we all have.
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Both stimulants and alternative medications can help reduce symptoms such as restlessness, forgetfulness and lack of motivation, the study found.
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For some people, grief can cause temporary forgetfulness, and keeping therapy appointments might only add to the burden, Kazez says.
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Letting users themselves choose which partners to notify risks some affected partners being left out, either through malice or simple forgetfulness.
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"Modern Spain is the product of forgiveness, but it can't be the product of forgetfulness," Sanchez said in a televised address.
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"Modern Spain is the product of forgiveness, but it can't be the product of forgetfulness," he said in a televised address.
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Add in errors, which can be introduced into spreadsheets through forgetfulness or fat fingers, and you have a recipe for lawsuits.
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It shows a "constant pattern of convenient forgetfulness" on the part of Trump campaign associates and meetings with Russia, he added.
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Reagan, who like Trump faced questions during his presidency about forgetfulness and mental slips, disclosed in 1994 that he had Alzheimer's.
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As her forgetfulness deepens into something worse, she becomes increasingly worried about her best friend, Elizabeth, who seems to have disappeared.
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Years (or even decades) after this process begins, people start to experience the hallmark symptoms of Alzheimer's, like forgetfulness and confusion.
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The resulting symptoms, such as "dizziness, forgetfulness, anxiety and the occasional bout of insane diarrhea," has made life a challenge at times.
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Eye drops are notoriously underused by patients for a variety of reasons, from the pains associated with their use to sheer forgetfulness.
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Buttigieg, however, took that as an opportunity to highlight her forgetfulness as a troubling sign that she's not prepared to be president.
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She called that "momentary forgetfulness," and Warren came to her rescue by saying the same could happen to any of the candidates.
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While in the past he's found fault with television shows that made light of forgetfulness, he didn't find the Shazam gimmick particularly egregious.
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"Let no Negro celebrities, no matter what financial condition they might be in at death, lie in inconspicuous forgetfulness," she wrote Du Bois.
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It was this speaking out against forgetfulness and violence that the Nobel committee recognized when it awarded him the peace prize in 1986.
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It is also the part that continues to grow as we age, developing new neurons that seem to lead to our early forgetfulness.
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But Halberstadt also understands the appeal of forgetfulness, when a historical burden is so suffocating that it can feel impossible to move on.
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If those were all IOT devices, they'd be vulnerable not just to my own forgetfulness, but to the malice of my many enemies.
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"I don't think that that momentary forgetfulness actually reflects what I know about Mexico and how much I care about it," Klobuchar said.
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Signs that parents should be on the lookout for include forgetfulness, clumsy movements, changes in mood or behavior and a loss of consciousness.
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They like the contract holders to have their memories intact to say good-bye, because the fifth day's pharma—the last pharma—causes forgetfulness.
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Libra, your incessant forgetfulness has always been a downfall of yours, and it'll only worsen due to Jupiter being in retrograde until mid-month.
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For all the institutional authority Wood possesses, one of the great pleasures he takes in criticism seems to be the opportunity for self-forgetfulness.
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She had just turned 88, and other than the usual age-related forgetfulness and grumbling about kids these days, she was her usual self.
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After Hook breaks Cora out of flour-milling prison, she gets some water from the River of Forgetfulness to make Zelena forget Hades ever existed.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — In the last years of his life, the longtime football coach for dominating college teams wrestled with impaired speech, forgetfulness, lapses in concentration.
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Afterward, Max assures a worried Frances that he was only playing up his forgetfulness to get them more time to do some digging on Robert's matters.
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If those charges amounted to negligence or forgetfulness on the part of AT&T employees, another scheme used to sign people up was straight up malicious.
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It's hard, however, to distinguish such protest from mere apathy or forgetfulness, and we ought to provide a way of registering it in the polling booth.
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Indeed, the information that "Mischling" conveys about Mengele and his experiments all seems to be verifiable — even the bread containing bromide, a kind of forgetfulness potion.
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We continued playing Scrabble, as we'd always done, and I held out hope that her acuity with words was evidence that her forgetfulness was perhaps temporary.
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Laziness and forgetfulness were the inspiration for Venmo, the mobile payments app that handled $12 billion in transactions over just the first three months of 2018.
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The result — a covers record riddled with the flubs and inventions of forgetfulness — was a jumble of intricate syncopations, vertiginous time changes and splintery guitar work.
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But in that forgetfulness, she becomes less of a symbol and more of a three-dimensional being, one who must win love as we all must.
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But a different and more pernicious kind of forgetfulness looms in Petina Gappah's first novel, "The Book of Memory," whose narrator grapples with the threat of erasure.
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This obsession, and the public's fascination and subsequent forgetfulness, is the core of No Place for the Living, Thomas's planned feature-length documentary currently funding on Kickstarter.
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Luckily, plenty of apps have been created to solve a spell of forgetfulness and make shopping easier so you can get to the cooking and eating faster.
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Stone's lawyer told CNN that Stone's misstatements resulted from forgetfulness and were "immaterial," and that Stone did not receive materials from WikiLeaks prior to their public release.
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So the "transition," as it was called, was underwritten by an unspoken pact in which Franco's opponents agreed to draw a veil of forgetfulness over his reign.
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When Anna overstays her tourist visa, the couple ignore that fact (because of their all-consuming love, rather than forgetfulness, the director Drake Doremus told The Times).
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As for the specific, neurological link between pregnancy and memory, Pawluski said she hasn&apost seen any research investigating whether changes in the maternal brain contribute to forgetfulness.
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All the while, Ms. Vradenburg (pronounced VRAY-denburg) dreaded the possibility that she, too, was genetically disposed to Alzheimer's, afraid that moments of normal forgetfulness augured the disease.
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When they enter into a sexual affair, she recasts herself adeptly (with the aid of whiskey and willed forgetfulness) so as to reap professional benefits while tamping down shame.
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Production companies do their best to keep everything about their movies as secret as possible, but unfortunately there's no way to totally safeguard against the human experience of forgetfulness.
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If you're someone who takes their gift buying down to the wire, do you blame it on procrastination, forgetfulness or the hope of snatching a great last-minute deal?
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But the same testimony, a transcript of which was released to news organizations, also included halting answers, profanity, forgetfulness and nonresponsiveness — putting renewed focus on the media mogul's mental capacity.
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The industry is leaving all the clichés about Doritos and forgetfulness behind, and embracing the other possibilities of a drug that is way more varied in its effects than alcohol.
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The darkest element of the play and opera is how the underworld is depicted: The dead pass through a river of forgetfulness, where they lose their memories, and even language.
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After several weeks to months, patients may also experience swelling of the membranes surrounding the brain, temporary paralysis of one side of the face and "brain fog": forgetfulness or confusion.
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Also, that gap in time can lead to some forgetfulness about how serious a storm can be and what the best steps are to follow before, during and after a storm.
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Whether they're buried by additional contacts, lost due to forgetfulness, or things just get weird because so much time has passed, accidental disconnection erodes the networks professionals try hard to build.
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Mr Sessions's forgetfulness was soon forgotten when The Atlantic, a magazine, obtained leaked messages between Donald Trump junior and WikiLeaks, which American intelligence agencies believe Russia uses to publish hacked data.
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Forgetfulness and cloudy thinking can be symptoms of the mental health conditions that Abilify is approved to treat, and patients with mental illness are known to struggle to take medication consistently.
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During this time, and for another year or more after menstruation stops, women may experience hot flashes, insomnia, tiredness, mood swings, forgetfulness, aches and pains, vaginal dryness and pain during sex.
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The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee vented frustration on Monday with what he described as a "pattern of convenient forgetfulness" by Trump campaign officials over undisclosed meetings with Russians.
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As the researchers told The Guardian that year, these results made the team think that some of a mother's forgetfulness could be due to the drastic schedule and life adjustments pregnancy creates.
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This kind of "slip" is an act of nationalistic forgetfulness — a political act, whereby the devastated and murdered Iraqis (to say nothing of the victims of that war's domino effect) are erased.
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He has since apologized to Peru for not disclosing his connections with the company, blaming forgetfulness and poor organization of his personal records after decades of work in finance and public administration.
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Astrologer Jenni Stone writes that a void of course moon's influence might manifest as an awkward encounter, a moment of forgetfulness, or a sudden need to hit the brakes on a project.
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I had been using traditional BBT tracking methods before but found it difficult to keep up with it due to my weird sleep schedule and my general forgetfulness when first waking up.
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But the potions didn't help, or maybe helped a little—they caused her to have spells of forgetfulness, to lose an hour here or there, but nothing really could lessen her dread.
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And given how often we joke about a child inheriting, say, their parent's forgetfulness or other personality traits, it's not irrational to think that a mental health disorder might be passed on, too.
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And, if left untreated, that condition causes all the bodily functions that your thyroid gland helps regulate to fall out of whack, leaving you with symptoms like fatigue, forgetfulness, constipation, and even depression.
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" Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota attributes her failure to recall the name of the president of Mexico to "momentary forgetfulness," and Pete Buttigieg says, "But you're staking your candidacy on your Washington experience.
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The World Health Organization estimated that 50 percent of people with chronic diseases in developed countries fail to take their medicines as prescribed, whether from forgetfulness, concern about side effects or other reasons.
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Related coverage: The Russia Investigation From the indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Monday to the forgetfulness of Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed on Thursday, this week was a seminal one.
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Several texts haunt this extraordinary book — those of Ghassan Kanafani, S. Yizhar, Khoury himself — but I was particularly struck by references to Mahmoud Darwish's "Memory for Forgetfulness," about the 1982 Israeli siege of Beirut.
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And while lead isn't good for adults either — at too high a concentration, it can cause symptoms like decreased libido, fatigue, and forgetfulness — it takes much more lead in blood to produce those effects.
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" The king continued: "For this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember themselves.
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"We created a theatre to introduce his story to audiences that fell into forgetfulness," says Mr Sverak, who, among a bevy of other artistic exploits, wrote and starred in "Kolya" (1996), an Oscar-winning film.
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Memory was loyalty, and forgetfulness was treason Any creative illustration "fixed in a tangible medium" is eligible for copyright, and, according to the United States Copyright Office, that includes the ink displayed on someone's skin.
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Whether the screw ups pop up because of editing or deleted scenes or just plain forgetfulness, the most embarrassing movie mistakes are often in the giant sized plot holes that the filmmakers hope we ignore.
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Dory's forgetfulness clearly exasperates and frustrates Marlin, but the film never portrays that as Dory's problem; it's up to him to learn tolerance and kindness, with Nemo (now played by Hayden Rolence) as his conscience.
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Afterward, a group of students issued a call for any photographs, videos, even selfies taken with the collection and in the exhibition spaces, to create a digital archive, a kind of virtual bulwark against forgetfulness.
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Unfair treatment in the workplace often comes in the form of "microaggressions" — subtle actions that undermine a person and are often explained away by forgetfulness, ignorance, or anything but the malice that usually inspired them.
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After that moment of forgetfulness, Magdon-Ismail said Kortina and he decided that their earlier idea to make mobile payments with a phone app connected to your bank account was worth developing into a reality.
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Prized in antiquity for its ability, as Homer wrote, "to quiet all pain and strife, and to bring forgetfulness of every evil," opium has always hovered on the line between essential household medicine and dangerous drug.
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And in the sort of irony that Mr. Stoppard would understand, his leading man ends the play on a deliberate note of forgetfulness, the final line capping a tremendous production that I shall not soon forget.
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This – or marriage – would be the only options available to the young women who live in one of the poorest and most conservative nations in the world, if not for one tourist's forgetfulness over 25 years ago.
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Graham refuses to let herself or her readers be "torchful of forgetfulness," reminding us in her shape-shifting poetry that cancer, racial and class warfare, immigrant phobia and nationalism infect us all in dissimilar yet interconnected ways.
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After the Minnesota senator defended her "momentary forgetfulness" when she failed to name the president of Mexico in a recent Telemundo interview, Buttigieg leaped in, surely thinking of the criticism he's taken from Klobuchar in recent debates.
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NEW YORK, Sept 26 (Reuters) - If you are seriously ill and homebound, or starting to be prone to forgetfulness, do you have someone you trust with your ATM code to run out and get you some cash?
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The project 'The Future of Memory: Poetics of Memory and Forgetfulness in South America' originated in Bogotá, just after the peace agreement was signed between the Colombian government and Revolutionary Armed Forces a year and a half ago.
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Borrowers are required to share their earnings information with their loan servicers annually if they are to keep making payments tied to their income, but not all borrowers do so, for reasons ranging from forgetfulness to servicer errors.
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Sometimes parents will enable their children's continuing dependency, perhaps by running over to school to drop off a forgotten lunch one day and a trombone the next rather than letting the child deal with the consequences of her forgetfulness.
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Ms. Klobuchar, who dismissed the error as "momentary forgetfulness," instead took umbrage with the attacks that Mr. Buttigieg had lobbed at her over the lapse, at one point accusing Mr. Buttigieg of calling her "dumb" and being overtly personal.
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Her desire to protect black history from "inconspicuous forgetfulness" (especially poignant given that she was buried in an unmarked grave) was part of the fierce black pride that guided her life and led to many misreadings of her complicated politics.
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"Fight forgetfulness," Elie Wiesel, the late Holocaust survivor and chronicler of Nazi crimes, exhorted German youths at a conference in 1987 on what to do with the Wannsee Villa, the Berlin mansion where the "final solution" was adopted by Nazi officials.
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Wilson's statement said: With splendid forgetfulness of mere personal concerns we remodeled our industries, concentrated our financial resources, increased our agricultural output, and assembled a great army, so that at the last our power was a decisive factor in the victory.
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In 2011, Ron Reagan published a book about the emotionally distant relationship he had with his father that made headlines for suggesting the president began to show alarming signs of forgetfulness during his first campaign, and that things deteriorated from there.
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The convenient forgetfulness, or misremembering of the past, is way to erase the history of female fighters, and maintain the hegemonic male power structure and the inaccurate belief that women have never, and will never, belong in certain male spaces.
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"The lower grade isn't going to help them be less forgetful, since that is part of their A.D.H.D." But others say teenagers do need to learn to face consequences for their forgetfulness, and that rescuing them will only foster dependency.
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"The lower grade isn't going to help them be less forgetful, since that is part of their A.D.H.D." But others say teenagers do need to learn to face consequences for their forgetfulness, and that rescuing them will only foster dependency.
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The authorities say that those kids weren't in any danger, since the explosives were "incredibly stable" and required a specific device to detonate, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Department, but still, forgetfulness like that doesn't make the CIA look good.
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He could fumble with papers at the defense table, shrug, feign forgetfulness, give the impression he had finished questioning a witness and then jump up with one more question — and start into a tigerish attack that was the heart of the matter.
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Where Las Vegas was once a destination almost exclusively for bachelorette parties, business conferences, and general forgetfulness, in the last few years, the city has gone through some massive transformations that have it poised to be the country's next great entertainment hub.
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In attending monthly sessions, I was not only able to identify when the symptoms of my dyspraxia worsen (when I'm tired, stressed or angry) but was taught how implementing basic routines can help minimize the most difficult of symptoms, including forgetfulness and disorganization.
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Seventy years after India and Pakistan won freedom from British rule, their mutual forgetfulness has more to do with ignoring, or perhaps simply not noticing, how much unfinished business remains from Partition, and how few of its lessons have really sunk in.
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" And here, one of my favorite sentences: "Forgetfulness was the only democratic thing in Colombia: It covered them all, the good and the bad, the murderers and the heroes, like the snow in the James Joyce story, falling upon all of them alike.
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While there are many such screening tests, the Moca is gaining acceptance because it is a bit harder than the Mini-Mental and can pick up problems that occur in the earliest stage of dementia, mild cognitive impairment — a sort of everyday forgetfulness.
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" Chandler Klang Smith on heroes and villains: "It definitely does seem obvious that the Skeksis are the bad guys and the Mystics are gentle and lovable, but there's also this idea that the Mystics are described as being lost in a mist of forgetfulness.
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In a country where forgetfulness and forgiveness are interchangeable and there is collective mental bias for the immediate present than the distant past, Marcos' blitzkrieg campaign of "historical revisionism" has proven increasingly effective, especially among the youth and those who are critical of the Philippines' oligarchy.
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Our selective forgetfulness might also help us look better in front of others—another experiment of theirs found that people were less morally judgmental of someone who seemed to forget negative info about a product when buying it than someone who knew but just ignored it.
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I once thought the ideas behind sentencing reform took root merely in forgetfulness about our past blunders; complacency about our success in correcting them; and, more recently, a refusal to look honestly at the surge in murder and heroin use we see in cities from coast to coast.
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This is something that the superhuman specimens who play baseball for a living have in common with the mortals on the other side of the screen—not just the fantastic and forever thwarted delusion of control but a willed forgetfulness that makes failure seem like an outrage and a surprise.
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While Manafort's lawyers are not admitting that their client lied to the special counsel — they claim some of Mueller's specific accusations are weak, and others were simple forgetfulness on Manafort's part — they also said they won't try to contest Mueller's judgment by requesting a hearing, at least not right now.
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I still laugh about it today as I go online to find presents for that child and for his precious little brother, and for my beloved other grandchildren who have never once commented on my baldness or my wig or my lethargy or forgetfulness, but just hang in there with me.
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I was just on the phone talking to a dear friend of mine, saying that I feel that I'm working on my forgetfulness and it's getting better, and then, right in the middle of that conversation, I got a text message from my publicist asking me if I called you yet.
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It's notable that so many of the president's top aides, from Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Jared Kushner to Donald Trump Jr. to Michael Flynn to George Papadopolous have gotten in trouble because of "forgetfulness," omissions, or outright lies concerning meetings with Russians and Russian officials during the campaign and the transition. 4.
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In his op-ed, Mr Garrow proposes that Chief Justice Roberts follow the lead of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where a programme is in place to watch for cognitive decline and encourage judges to remove themselves from the bench before they start to show signs of forgetfulness or confusion during hearings.
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Michael Gove only plunged the dagger twixt the former mayor's shoulder blades because he had been driven to exasperation by Mr Johnson's forgetfulness and lack of preparation (rumour has it he had written barely a third of his announcement speech by the early hours of the day he was due to give it).
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I had no idea what to make of the strange forgetfulness that came over Close, or his new style of painting, or whatever had led him to Long Beach, but it seemed to me as I traipsed the boardwalk that I could really only hope to connect with the work through the man.
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When Carreras asked him about how much he enjoyed meeting people on their trip, he said, "People were amazing, um, just on, uh, um, what was it…" Before Craddock was diagnosed, his wife had grown so angry and frustrated with his forgetfulness and inability to complete tasks, she thought they were headed towards divorce.
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"That phenotype—low levels of anxiety, forgetfulness, a happy-go-lucky demeanor—isn't representative of how everyone responds to cannabis, but you see a lot of the prototypical changes in them that occur when people consume cannabis," said Matthew Hill, a biologist at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute, who was a co-author of the Cameron paper.
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Once the group has reconvened in Derry, they realize they're all a bit confused about why they're there; Pennywise seems to cast a spell of forgetfulness on anyone who leaves the town, so most of them barely remember their previous selves or their relationships with each other, even though they all felt psychically compelled to return.
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The moment I keep returning to comes toward the end of the collection, in a poem called "Prying," where words detonate, one after the other: your life depends on what says the disappearing air, the dis- appearing vein, surveil me here, in solitary, entertain me mise-en-scène, hear me chain of command, touch me, stain-free middle class American female subject starting downtown on the drip line, on the gleaming staff of this protean sentinel, its silver rod held up, torchful of forgetfulness, streaming, translucent, give me your mass, your teeming cell-dividing mass—give me your poverty, your every breath is screened, your every cell We find the speaker once more in the middle of her treatment, this time with drugs in her veins.
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