Memory Quotes
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"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually."
-Frank Sinatra
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-Frank Sinatra
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"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
-Michel de Montaigne
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-Michel de Montaigne
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"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it."
-Georges Duhamel
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-Georges Duhamel
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"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."
-Washington Irving
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-Washington Irving
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"We live under one sky -- and the sweep of a past painted from the palette of a bruise."
-Red Constantino
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-Red Constantino
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"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
-Aleister Crowley
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-Aleister Crowley
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"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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-Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."
-Barbara Kingsolver
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-Barbara Kingsolver
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"Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them."
-Gary Ryan Blair
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-Gary Ryan Blair
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"For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little."
-Rachel Carson
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-Rachel Carson
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"Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories."
-Jesse Jackson
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-Jesse Jackson
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"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."
-Alexander Smith
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-Alexander Smith
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"The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds."
-Tryon Edwards
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-Tryon Edwards
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"My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere."
-Olivia Newton john
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-Olivia Newton john
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"To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember."
-James R. Hoffa (jimmy)
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-James R. Hoffa (jimmy)
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