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But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.

Hjalmar Schacht

Peace

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Diane Sawyer

Fact

Memory

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

George Savile

Memory

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Memory

Speech

Words

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.

Cesar Romero

Memory

Pretty

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Judgment

Memory

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Memory

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

Frank Robinson

Memory

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.