And often they induce us to forget the difference between seeing and dreaming.
"I am a Christian, I believe in the social market and I think we do tend to forget the difference between value and price, not just in the Conservative party but across the spectrum in this country," is his silken summary of where he stands.
And while I might be hard pressed to find someone who refuses to partake in such revelry, the idea of purposely getting intoxicated enough to forget the difference between right and wrong may strike some folks as excessive or even lowly behavior.
But let's not forget the difference between the life-long dedication to evidentiary discovery, or the fashioning of a new narrative from a nuanced study of the facts, and a writer's ability to market that idea.
We shouldn't forget the difference between the ability of our government to collect information online under strict guidelines and for narrow purposes, and the willingness of some other governments to throw their own citizens in prison for what they say online.
Forget the difference between levels of engagement (compliant, contributing, committed).
We easily forget the difference between being powerful in the sense of being egotistic and controlling, and being powerful meaning full of loving kindness.
Bekas -- which Kader explained means "a person who has no parents, no family at all" in Kurdish -- is a film that made me laugh and cry, and then forget the difference between the two, as I giggled through my tears.
Once you realize this you will forget the differences between the Hindus and Muslims, and think of yourselves as Indians only, engaged in the common struggle for independence..
Conlon is funny on the subject of police language ("the general oddity of cop talk, its shotgun marriage of street slang and legalese"), but woe to the reader who, by Chapter 12, forgets the difference between a P.O. and an O.P., the 61 and the five, a bag and a skell.
Something is wrong, Die Zeit argued in an editorial, when a country like Britain — whose closeness to the United States has been stressed in coverage of the affair — forgets the difference between journalism and terrorism.
