- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory Quotes
On what doesn't get forgotten.
A striking idea repeated in this collection is that nature outlasts our decisions, remembering and judging them more fairly than the politicians shaping them, a theme also present in the great collection.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very bad memory. So I would like a chat bot to just remind me of everything I forget. I spend my entire life on Google trying to remember stuff.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a recurring dream where I'm on the run for a horrible thing I did years and years ago. Like, in the dream... because the thing I did was so long ago that it's just a faint memory in my dream, so I'm sort of remembering it as I'm on the run from the police. And I'm totally guilty of it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching the 1996 Games in Atlanta. I remember everyone being so excited to watch. Seeing the American athletes on the podium, I saw myself. I knew that that was what I wanted to do. I wanted to be one of those athletes on the podium representing their country and bringing home medals.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
What to do with a leading business that's challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single greatest example of recent memory is Apple's willingness to decimate iPod sales by incorporating all the category-defining product's features into a new gizmo, the iPhone.
- Fortress
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- Nov 07, 2020
A conveyor belt of Think Tank pundits and allied operatives poured into the TV studios, and together they built a fortress around Mrs. Thatcher's memory that was rooted in theories about economics. They did this because economics is the only language that wonks understand.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
- Nov 07, 2020
Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite holiday memory is making gingerbread houses. It's something I've done with my children since they were born.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020