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"Riches to Rags" originates from a riff composed by John Levén.He sent the riff to Joey Tempest and the latter finished the song in a music rehearsal space he rented in Shepherd's Bush, by adding a chorus of his own and writing lyrics are about forgetting the past, moving on and re-emerging.
Vergangenheitsbewältigung describes the attempt to analyze, digest and learn to live with the past, in particular the Holocaust.The focus on learning is much in the spirit of philosopher George Santayana's oft-quoted observation that "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it".
"I Forgot That You Existed" is a bubblegum pop, R&B, and post-tropical house song that features a pop rap beat, a minimalist production, and lyrics about moving on and feeling indifferent to past pain. Some music critics praised the song for its sharp lyricism and refreshing nature, while others criticized its concept as confusing.
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In Philippians 3:13–14, Paul says, "Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."
President Herbert Hoover then ordered the Army to clear the campsites and move the protesters across the Anacostia River. Washington, D.C., police clash with veteran protesters on July 28 1932.
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies is a 2016 non-fiction book by David Rieff, published by Yale University Press.Rieff argues the contrarian position that sometimes history, including past mass atrocities, is better forgotten than commemorated: [1] "whereas forgetting does an injustice to the past, remembering does an injustice to the present".
In Faust, Part Two, the titular character, Faust, is bathed "in the dew of Lethe" so that he would forget what happened in Faust, Part One. A remorseful Faust would not work well with the rest of Part 2. The forgetting powers of Lethe allowed him to forget the ending of the Gretchen drama and move on to the story of part 2.