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> [Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-dossey/alan-watts-the-buddhist-scholar-proposed-the-existence-of-a-mental/)

[Larry Dossey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-dossey/)

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> [Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/then-may-we-not-fairly-plead-in-reply-that-our-true-lover-of/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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