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I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good. -- Wale
I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately. -- Gordon Bell
Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory. -- Katherine Center
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business. -- Mark Twain
Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory. -- Jerome Bruner
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be. -- Alice Dreger
Artâ??the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory. -- Lawrence Durrell
We're defining the competitive landscape... of who can provide the most supportive services that make life easier, keep track of things, that complement human memory in a way that helps us get things done, -- Eric Horvitz
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it -- Thomas Carlyle
When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I have experienced myself, due to aging, human memory can exhibit very poor short term recall. -- Kevin Warwick
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.' -- David Suzuki
Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others. -- Ramez Naam
Sins that have been completely absolved on one occasion sometimes on other occasions cannot be completely forgotten or set aside. They may continue to have a ripple effect. But it is comforting to realize that they are no longer remembered by God, even if traces remain in human memory. -- Thomas C. Oden
Human memory is short and terribly fickle. -- Janine di Giovanni
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition. -- Hilary Mantel
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! -- Henry David Thoreau
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human. -- Joshua Foer
To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used. -- Tony Buzan
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. -- Giacomo Casanova
We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest. -- Frank Luntz
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin. -- Simon Schama
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. -- Alex Grey
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. -- Steven Pinker
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. -- Joshua Foer
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. -- George Eliot
Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. -- Greg Bear
Here I am sitting in the back of a cab with Catherine Zeta-Jones who is telling me Michael Douglas has fond memories of me - it just makes me feel good as a human being. -- John Schneider
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. -- Primo Levi
The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory. -- Ben Brantley
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human. -- Elie Wiesel
That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory. -- Ovid
One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms. -- Ida Tarbell
Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life. -- Mark Van Doren
Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory. -- Nelson Mandela
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory. -- Chris Cleave
Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. -- Gunter Grass
A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good. -- Varlam Shalamov
The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences. -- Daniel Tammet
Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God. -- Roger Ebert
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings. -- Ivan KlÃma
Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next. -- William Saroyan
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire. -- Samuel Johnson
Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention. -- Alain Robbe-Grillet
...human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory... -- Seneca the Younger
A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow is the birthright of every human being. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity. -- Medard Boss

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