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memories book writing
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
memories appreciate literature
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
memories mind firsts
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
memories book reader
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
memories teaching should-have
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.
memories green lord
Lord, keep my memory green. Charles Dickens
memories husband men
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
memories liberty might
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
valuable available
When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable. Charles Frazier
valuable humans human-beings
The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings Alfred Marshall
valuable
The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion. David Hare
valuable
We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past. John Eaton
valuable tedious ifs
Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it. Alain de Botton
valuable
Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable. Alice Hamilton
valuable
What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.
valuable conclusion draws
Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning. Barry McCaffrey
valuable
would have been a valuable contributor to our board. Richard Grasso