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Quotations by Subject: Memory (27 quotes)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.: Rita Mae Brown
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.: P.D. James
There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.: Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
Before emphasizing what I believe, perhaps I should point out what I do not believe, or what I no longer believe: I no longer believe in the magic of the spoken word. It signifies not order but disorder. It does not eliminate chaos, it only conceals it. It no longer carries men's hopes but distorts them. It has ceased to be a vehicle, only to become an obstacle. It does not signify sharing but compromise.: Elie Weisel, From the Kingdom of Memory
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.: David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory

Results from Poor Man's College:

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.: Author Unknown

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