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• Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Tree, Ancestry, Ancestor

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.36, VM eBooks

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• I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.

  Sharon Stone

  Real, Speak, Stardust

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• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Thinking, Brain, Patterns

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• We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Brain, Different, Wipe

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• Observation is an old man's memory.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Literature, Old Man

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”

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• I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

  Daniel Tammet

  Skills, May, Tests

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• I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

  Serj Tankian

  Eye, Thinking, Political

  "‘Screamers’ and Genocide: A Talk With Serj Tankian From System of a Down". Interview with Richard (RJ) Eskow, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2006.

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• One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

  James Taylor

  Beautiful, Grandmother, Voice

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

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• The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Growing Up, Thinking, Names

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• Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Doe, Landscape

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.170, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Achievement, Ego, Mind

  "Sunday Profile: Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Dan Harris, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2009.

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• Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Real, Believe, Past

  "Bad Memories? Eckhart Tolle’s Advice on How to Deal". “Super Soul Sunday“ with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

  Linus Torvalds

  Children, Linux, Management

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• Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Intelligent, Rely Upon, Understanding

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• Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

  Buddy Valastro

  Happy Birthday, Sweet, Cake

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• The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

  Margaret Walker

  Collective Unconscious, People, Body

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• I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

  Muddy Waters

  Long, Causes, Blues Music

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• The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

  Rebecca West

  Power, Mere, Personal Life

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.159, Open Road Media

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• When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

  William Westmoreland

  Inspiring, Military, Home

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• I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Terrible, Concentrating

  "The world according to Vivienne Westwood" By Dean Irvine, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2009.

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• He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

  Edith Wharton

  Regret, Lifetime, Inarticulate

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2192, Delphi Classics

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• That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Literature, Want, Kingdoms

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• For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Funny, Success, Art

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• It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

  A. N. Wilson

  Regret, Night, College

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