#memory

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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I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory. ↗

— Bill Gates

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Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. ↗

— Ang Lee

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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. ↗

— John Leonard

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Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me. ↗

— James MacArthur

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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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History is information. Memory is part of your identity. ↗

— David Miliband

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I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory. ↗

— David Miliband

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It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be. ↗

— Rick Moody

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