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- Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
- Pearl S. Buck
- Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
- Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
- The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
- Sir B. Brodie
- Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
- Author Unknown
- Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- 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 (1608 - 1661)
- Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
- Dale Carnegie
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