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• We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the water - if very young children don't begin learning about these things literally in their houses, backyards, streets and schools. We need to have human beings who are oriented that way from their earliest memories.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Respect, Children, School

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• In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

  John Updike

  Lenses, Old Memories, Objects

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.23, Random House

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• What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Children, Childhood, Forever

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• The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

  Lois Lowry

  Lonely, Pain, Loneliness

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Smell, Mind, Photograph

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Men, Practice, Perception

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• Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Healing, Past

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.

  Robert Breault

  Sadness

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• In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these days, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' the probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.

  Tadatoshi Akiba

  War, Fate, Past

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• Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

  Diane Ackerman

  Senior, Sweet, August

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• Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

  Cyril Connolly

  Cards, Literature, Authority

  "Readings" by Michael Dirda, www.washingtonpost.com. March 7, 1999.

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• Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

  Philip Roth

  Past, Facts, Past Memories

  Philip Roth (1989). “The facts: a novelist's autobiography”, Vintage

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• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

  Janet Jackson

  Forgiveness, Pain, Emotional

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• Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.

  Alan Cooper

  Dream, Heart, Past

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• Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.

  Austin O'Malley

  Funny, Crazy, Rags

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• The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lessons, Youth, Forgotten

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.

  William Deane

  Cutting, Past, Long

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• No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Remembrance, Causes

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.317, Random House

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• 'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'

  Robert Ruark

  Fun, Night, Men

  Robert Ruark (2016). “Old Man’s Boy Grows Up”, p.162, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, 'There. That taste. That's the taste of my childhood.'

  Pat Conroy

  Growing Up, Spring, Blue

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

  John Boyne

  Heart, Forget, Burned

  John Boyne (2009). “Mutiny On The Bounty”, p.162, Random House

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• Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.

  Roger Sherman

  Love, Sad, Country

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• Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Running, Selfish, Eye

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.353, ReadHowYouWant.com

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