Quotes 181 till 200 of 223.
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Truth comes home to the mind so naturally that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
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Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001) -
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Source: First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861 -
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
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We must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
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Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
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What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.
Source: De last die ze droegen (1990) 34 -
What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
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What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
Source: Falling Man (2011) 73
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