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| A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. |
| Doug Larson |
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| A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin |
| George Herbert |
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| A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. |
| Elbert Hubbard |
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| Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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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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| Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. |
| Saul Bellow |
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| He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started? |
| Zsa Zsa Gabor |
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| I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. |
| Sophia Loren |
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| Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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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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| Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. |
| Jessamyn West |
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| Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. |
| Doug Larson |
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| Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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