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The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#day #english #first #half #heart

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#being #blessed #chance #closer #did

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#people #simple #simple things #things #tired

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#challenging #experience #more #more people #obliged

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#challenges #could #gay #gay marriage #heterosexual

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence. ↗

— John Boehner

#choose #chose #did #existence #extremists

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#i #korea #make #shall #trip

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#american people #boring #face #half #half hour

I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer. ↗

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

#between #dream #eyes #finger #i

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#done #due #feel #half #harm