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• Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training." "Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.

  Richelle Mead

  Sacrifice, Training, Lawyer

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.32, Penguin

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• Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis.

  Muriel Spark

  Personality, Trying, Forget

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• Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?

  Judith McNaught

  Memories, Clarity, Painful

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Almost Heaven: A Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that "ultimate reality is a unity of opposites" is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Believe, Opposites

  Ken Wilber (1979). “No Boundary, Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, Great Eastern Book Company

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• It’s all right,” she said. “You’re through.” “Jesus,” he finally managed, pushing water off his face. “Jesus Christ and John the Baptist. For that matter, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.” Still not enough. He needed to reach back to the Old Testament for this. “Obadiah. Nebuchadnezzar. Methuselah and Job.” “Be calm,” she said, taking him by the shoulders. “Be calm. And there are women in the Bible, you know.” “Yes. As I recall it, they were trouble, every last one.

  Tessa Dare

  Jesus, Jobs, Water

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• There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Sleep, Past, Childhood

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• Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God... God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial kingdom of God" -John Taylor recalls the words of Joseph Smith to the Twelve. JS manual page 231

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Men, Storm

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• There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all

  John Lennon

  Life, Forever, Popular Song

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• Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dark, Men, Race

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 46

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• My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Sweet, Air

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• How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Editors, Charity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7132, Delphi Classics

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Learning, Humility

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference in 1987. "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?" Book by Judson Poling, p. 30, 2003.

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• Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’ To do with our enterprise? To do with this voyage?’ Perhaps not quite directly.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Important, Enquiry, Voyages

  Patrick O'Brian (2000). “Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.121, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Age, Desire

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• And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.

  Daniel Quinn

  Culture, World, Birth

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.206, Bantam

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• But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty in it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Beautiful, Dream, Struggle

  Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

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• Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

  Alice Walker

  Eye, People, Forever

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.

  Robin Hobb

  Dirty, Men, Rivers

  Robin Hobb (2013). “The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy: Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic”, p.102, HarperCollins UK

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• love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky

  e. e. cummings

  Winning, Love Is, Sea

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.66, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Fun

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• The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Labor, Humans

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.48, Bantam Classics

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• Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Use, Faces

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• To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

  Christopher Hitchens

  Break Off, Remember, Sin

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.34, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happiness, Memories, Stages Of Grief

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.37, Harmony

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• Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks.

  Kenny Chesney

  Growing Up, Track, Growing

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