#retain

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not. ↗

— Daniel Pipes

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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed. ↗

— Earl Warren

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I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. ↗

— Andre Breton

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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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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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Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

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