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Memory

Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Wynne-Tyson, Jon

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Fuller, Thomas

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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb, Irish

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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will

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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll

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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.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George

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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare