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Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them Charles Caleb Colton
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
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Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
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All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.
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Lord, keep my memory green. Charles Dickens
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I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
memories dictator amnesia
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. Charles Stross
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If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
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Magnanimity has no need to prove the prudence of its motives Vauvenargues Marquis
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Since they have done that we have even more of a motive to be public.
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I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved. Stephane Hessel
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Motive is something we're not getting into at this point and time.
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Our suspicion at this time is that the motive was theft.
motive our-time
We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive. Bharati Mukherjee
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If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved? C. S. Lewis
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One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. Emile M. Cioran
motives
As always with Cablevision, their motives are inscrutable,
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When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker. Hugh Johnson
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We are talking about people who prey on young children. There isn't any way we can be too strict on these sick people. There should be no ambiguity in our laws. I would even want to look at something as extreme as castration for these people.
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'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life. Brendan Fletcher
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life. Nancy Kress
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wanted to make sure there was no ambiguity regarding the things we weren't happy about.
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One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead characters in many '70s and '80s films, has a moral ambiguity to him. Joe Cornish
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Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are. John Crowley
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One is the pin the blame on the media with the references to the tabloid spectacle, ... One is the assertion of full cooperation with the police. One is the carving of a moat around his private life. And one is the use of constructive ambiguity with references to not being perfect but with no explanation for what those imperfections are. Mike Doyle
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I have certainly seen US and UK leaders in Europe who struggle. They personally might not have the tolerance for ambiguity and go into meetings where things do not seem bolted down - yet the numbers are good and they scratch their heads and wonder how.