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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Condolences

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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• We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

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• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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• I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Love, Thinking, Stronger

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mindfulness, Homecoming, Short Memory

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• Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

  Saul Bellow

  Doors, Needs, Moments

  SAUL BELLOW (1971). “MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET”

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• Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Imagination, Life Is, Deficiency

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Love leaves a memory nobody can take away from you.

  Danielle Campbell

  Away From You

  Twitter post from Oct 08, 2013

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• As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.

  John Madden

  Family, Jobs, Kids

  John Madden's Enshrinement Speech, www.profootballhof.com. August 5, 2006.

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• Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

  Joshua Foer

  Motivation, Short Life, Inspiration

  "Feats of memory anyone can do". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Loss, Remembrance

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 5, sc. 3, l. 19

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• Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Past, Keys, Hiding Place

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.31, Chosen Books

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• A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

  Edward de Bono

  Doe, Criminal Mind, Short Memory

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• It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

  Lord Byron

  Light, Years, Imagination

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• I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

  Diane Sawyer

  Way, Facts, Fascinated

  Attributed to Diane Sawyer in R.L. Messner, S.J. Lewis "Increasing patient satisfaction" (p. 185), 1996.

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• The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

  Jane Austen

  Sometimes, Weak, Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Witty, Mistake

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• Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Smell, Vision, Scent

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.5, Vintage

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• If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

  Jane Austen

  Past, Thinking, Miracle

  Jane Austen (2013). “Mansfield Park”, p.172, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspiration, Overcoming, Spirit

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• The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

  Salvador Dali

  Love, Real, Jewels

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

  Timothy Leary

  Inspiring, Long, Three

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• Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory.

  Gary Numan

  Time Heals, Heal, Our Memories

  Song: Zero Bars, Album: Tubeway Army

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• A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pleasure, Remembered, One Thing

  "Out of the Silent Planet". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1938.

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• The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny Inspirational, Philosophical, Optimistic

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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