"If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them Why can't he recall with equal skill All the times he told them!"

Memory, Recall, Jokes, Skill

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"If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them Why can't he recall with equal skill All the times he told them!"

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"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"While we are floating against the current toward the future, our minds stay behind with the anchoring memories of the past."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Maybe I have never had the Christmas I remember, since we never remember the event itself but just the last time we revisited the memory. I have woven together a few dozen scraps (the Sears catalog, my father videoing everything we did, Christmas parties and visits with Santa) and pretended they amount to one perfect, cohesive moment, but I am as guilty as baby-boomers, who dictated unconsciously that all the songs they listened to in 1963 would be the timeless Christmas standards of today."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"We can invent only with memory."

Alphonse Karr, French Critic

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"When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"We're too young to want to stop living, because after all, we shouldn't stop something we haven't even started."

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"Once you find your Happy space,you wouldnt be in the rat race."

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"Night when deep sleep falleth on men."

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"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts."

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"Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument."

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"His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory."

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"Productive prayer requires earnestness not eloquence."

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"Worry never climbed a hill worry never paid a bill Worry never dried a tear worry never calmed a fear Worry never darned a heel worry never cooked a meal It never led a horse to water nor ever did a thing it "oughter.""

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"Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

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