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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. -Frank Sinatra
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams
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Language is memory and metaphor.

Storm Jameson
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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. -Michel de Montaigne
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. -Lewis Carroll
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Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Georges Duhamel
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I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Aleister Crowley
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. -Washington Irving
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We live under one sky -- and the sweep of a past painted from the palette of a bruise.

Red Constantino
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Lewis B. Smedes
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It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Barbara Kingsolver
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little. -Rachel Carson
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Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Gary Ryan Blair
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Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

Richard Schickel
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories. -Jesse Jackson
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith
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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln
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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. -Tryon Edwards
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We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hunger steals the memory. -Louise Erdrich
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My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.

Olivia Newton john
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To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember.

James R. Hoffa (jimmy)
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Their memory's like a train:  you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream. -Tom Waits
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