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• Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.

  Steve Carell

  Children, People, Trying

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• I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Alzheimer's, Interesting

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Writing, Giving, Interesting

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• Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

  Graydon Carter

  Thinking, Lenses, Way

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• The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Order, Mind, Analogies

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

  Ray Charles

  Music, Play, Ears

  "Quotes: Ray Charles in His Own Words", www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2004.

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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Veterans Day, Strong

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sweet, Philosophical, Past

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• Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Standing Out, Fixed, Remains

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1967). “Cicero”

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• Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Safety, Childhood, Mexico

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• Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

  Laurel Clark

  Beautiful, Motherhood, Eight

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• I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Pride, Race, People

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• Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

  Kurt Cobain

  Respect, Time, Self Esteem

  Rolling Stone Magazine, April 16, 1992.

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• A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Writing, Imagination, Pockets

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”, p.136

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• One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

  Gail Collins

  College, Feelings, Done

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Appreciate, Literature, Merit

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• Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

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• I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Atmosphere, Records

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• A good memory is needed after one has lied.

  Pierre Corneille

  Good Memories, Lied, Needed

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• The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Funny, Happiness

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Love & Marriage”

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• I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.

  Sloane Crosley

  Birthday, Summer, Baby

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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

  Education, Philosophical, Comeback

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

  Miley Cyrus

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Daughter

  "Miley Cyrus Plans to Write Memoir". Disney Book Group Statement, www.reuters.com. April 23, 2008.

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• I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

  Louis C. K.

  Jobs, Crazy, Different

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• It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mind, Tails, Mouths

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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