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 | "A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear
conscience." | |
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Doug Larson
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| "A memory is what is left when something happens and does not
completely unhappen." | |
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Edward de Bono
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| "A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and
look back when thou hearest The sound of my name." | |
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Gerald Griffin
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| "A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force
open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you
don"t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more
interesting." | |
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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| "Every man"s memory is his private literature." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not
take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden." | |
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T. S. Eliot
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| "I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so
much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events
than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of
his memory." | |
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Andre Breton
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| "I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you
came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me The memory of your
name." | |
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Laurence Hope
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| "If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were
worrying about one year ago today." | |
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Unknown
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| "In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old
trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of
a small boldness is a hand to hold." | |
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John Leonard
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| "It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more
frequently in memory than in life." | |
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P. D. James
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| "It"s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." | |
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Lewis Carroll
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| "It"s hard to be nostalgic when you can"t remember anything." | |
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Proverb
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| "Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in
the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart." | |
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Robert Fulghum
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| "Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind." | |
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Guillaume Apollinaire
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| "Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is
best not to stir them." | |
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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
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| "Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what
is unnecessary." | |
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Maurice Baring
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| "Memory is the mother of all wisdom." | |
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Aeschylus
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| "Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and
delights old age." | |
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Lactantius
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| "Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when
sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves,
when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved"s bed; And so thy
thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on." | |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| "No memory is ever alone; it"s at the end of a trail of memories, a
dozen trails that each have their own associations." | |
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| "Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to
forget, is a necessary condition for our existence." | |
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Sholem Asch
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| "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to
forget it." | |
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Michel de Montaigne
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| "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad
memory." | |
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Franklin Pierce Adams
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| "Nothing is so responsible for the good old days as a bad
memory." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that
flourishes, and the first that dies." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "Our memories are card indexes ? consulted, and then and then
returned in disorder, by authorities whom we do not control." | |
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Cyril Connolly
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| "Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o" lang syne?" | |
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Robert Burns
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| "Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can
ever happen to one again." | |
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Willa Sibert Cather
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| "That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy
highways where I went And cannot come again." | |
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Alfred Edward Housman
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| "The general root of superstition is that men observe when things
hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and pass over
the other." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the
dark." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it
pleases." | |
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Michel de Montiage
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| "The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly
gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments,
which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone
else"s foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a
highly selective memory system." | |
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Lao Tzu
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| "The true art of memory is the art of attention." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "The two offices of memory are collection and distribution." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In
misery." | |
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Dante Alighieri
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| "Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "Though time changes people, it does not alter the image we have kept
of them." | |
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Marcel Proust
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| "Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept
- and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then
wept again the loss of all those years." | |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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| "Unless we remember we cannot understand." | |
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Edward Morgan "E. M." Forster
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| "We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never
really happened to us." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "We do not remember days, we remember moments." | |
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Cesare Pavese
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| "What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an
instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible
and acceptable to oneself." | |
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Stanley Kauffmann
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| "What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one"s
faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one"s memories." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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| "When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too,
The mem"ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew." | |
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Thomas Moore
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| "You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories." | |
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Stanislaw J. Lec
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