Memorandum Quotes

• A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

  Dean Acheson

  Funny, Accountability, Political

  Quoted in Wall Street Journal, 8 Sept. 1977

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• No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

  Dean Acheson

  Men, Second Best, Conversation

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• "The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

  Lewis Carroll

  Broken Heart, Kings, Queens

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

  Davy Crockett

  Forever, Independence, Liberty

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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• What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, "they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us".

  Benjamin Carson

  Attitude, Land, Brotherhood

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

  Anna Brackett

  Book, Simple, Two

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• The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

  Saul Bellow

  Dark, Reflection, Glasses

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.

  Edward Hirsch

  Healing, Loss, Brotherhood

  Edward Hirsch (2011). “The Living Fire”, p.78, Knopf

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• I have begun drafting a memorandum for the prosecuting authorities, together with all evidence necessary to establish not only the existence of numerous specific instances of scientific or economic fraud in relation to the official "global warming" storyline but also the connections between these instances, and the overall scheme of deception that the individual artifices appear calculated to reinforce.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Deception, Together, Connections

  "Making the police state work for you" by Christopher Monckton, www.climatedepot.com. December 15, 2011.

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• I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.

  Gertrude Bell

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

  Henry L. Stimson

  War, Unconditional Love, Japan

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• I believe the ones who stand up for what we say, which is stay inside the Eurozone, try to fix some things in the memorandum and try to help Greece get out of this mess without leaving the Eurozone, without leaving Europe.

  Eva Kaili

  Believe, Europe, Leaving

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Flower, Sunshine, Thinking

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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