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• Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Taste, Tongue

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.107

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• The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

  Penelope Lively

  Past, Years, Privacy

  Penelope Lively (2012). “How It All Began: A Novel”, p.174, Penguin

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• Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Pain, Memories, Love Is

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1845). “Summa Theologica, (Complete)”, p.3172, Library of Alexandria

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• Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.

  Clint Walker

  Falling In Love, Nine, Temples

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• While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.

  Tony Blankley

  Gun, Boys, Cowboy

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• But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

  Denis Diderot

  Religious, Men, Blood

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• It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons... I warn the House of Lords of the consequences... it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House.

  James Callaghan

  Strong, Views, House

  James Callaghan's speech on economic policy in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. November 9, 1976.

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• Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.

  Martin O'Malley

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

  "Walker, O'Malley, Trumka". "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. June 10, 2012.

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• There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Sick, Exhibitions

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• The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term 'democracy' even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to 'democracy' only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system.

  Clarence Manion

  Father, Writing, Men

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• I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.

  Bill Nighy

  Memories, Play, Done

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Beautiful, Summer, Winter

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• recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Known

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.177, 谷月社

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• We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

  Rumi

  Spring, Animal, Plant Life

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.155, Penguin UK

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• At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Ideas, Breakfast, Tables

  "Five minutes with Mark Z Danielewski". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2000.

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• It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.

  Leonard Cohen

  Peace, Morning, Distance

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• That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

  Colum McCann

  Mother, Writing, Son

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.107, Random House

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• Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

  Don McLean

  Died

  Song: Miss American Pie, Album: American Pie

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• Today, recall a favorite memory, which serves as a gateway to uplifting feelings and thoughts.

  Doreen Virtue

  Uplifting, Memories, Feelings

  Doreen Virtue (2008). “Daily Guidance from Your Angels”, p.94, Hay House, Inc

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• At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.

  George Papandreou

  Mother, Father, People

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• Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

  Nick Rahall

  Half, Bills, Facts

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• This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in free enterprise and capitalism system. [...[ And, yes, free enterprise system can be cruel. But the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the one who had suffered the most, the kind that need investors, the kinds that don't need the hundreds of pages, thousands of pages of regulations that continue to plague them and have them hold back on the hiring investment.

  John McCain

  Needs, World, Unions

  "Sen. McCain talks Syria, Iran and tensions with Pakistan; Cardinal Wuerl on Catholic institutions vs. Obama administration". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through prior experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Memories, Buddhism, Done

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• Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

  Horace

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  Epistles bk. 1, no. 18, l. 71

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