| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen. | | Marcel Proust | | | The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. | | Frank Lloyd Wright | | | The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. | | Gore Vidal | | | | | There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. | | Marcel Proust | | | These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng | | Bible | | | Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.' | | Albert Schweitzer | | | We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. | | Lillian Hellman | | | We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures | | Samuel Johnson | | | What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it | | Thomas Carlyle | | | 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? | | François de la Rochefoucauld | | | You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. | | Franklin P. Jones | | | | | | | |
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