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"A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day." »Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out." »Jane Austen
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"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out." »Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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"I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again." »Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca
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"memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing." »Thomas Fuller
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"memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields." »Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
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"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted." »James Branch Cabell
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"If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time." »J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation." »George Bernard Shaw
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"There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third." »Timothy Leary
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"The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind." »Plato
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"If you're trying to remember a happy memory, don't think back to a time when you were ALSO thinking of a happy memory, because man, how long does this go on" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Elaine Dickinson There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane" »Airplane
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"memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?" »Martin Tupper
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"The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory." »Truman Capote
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"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School board" »Mark Twain
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men." »Zora Neale Hurston
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"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," the Conclusion
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"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance." »Thomas Huxley
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"I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, 'Tadpoles Tadpoles is a winner' We all thought he was crazy. But then, we had some growing up to do." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"“We only have now! Everything else is either imagination or memory."" »Steve Maraboli
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"The palest ink is better than the best memory." »Chinese Proverb
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"memory feeds imagination." »Amy Tan
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"A liar should have a good memory." »Quintilian
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"Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment." »Benjamin Franklin
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