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• Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.

  Lynda Barry

  Growing Up, Fun, Mixing

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• The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

  Carol Tavris

  America, Movement, Consciousness

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• The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to me. And the truth is, we are all - basically the universe - pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time. With a little self-induced amnesia.

  RuPaul

  Self, Looks, Hey

  "RuPaul: Famous, Fierce And Fashion Forward". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 2, 2012.

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• In a way, after you're done directing there is a sense of amnesia that washes over you, you can't exactly remember how you did things. It's a zone, just like an athlete, when they can't remember what they did, but somehow got it done.

  Rebecca Miller

  Athlete, Over You, Done

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

  Max Lucado

  Spiritual, Form

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Memories, Dedication, Past

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• In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.

  John Eccles

  Sleep, Self, Order

  "Eccles' Model of the Self Controlling Its Brain: The Irrelevance of Dualist-Interactionism" by Donald E. Watson and Bernard O. Williams, 2003.

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• You have to have like a bit of amnesia both on the winning side and the losing side of this thing... On the losing side you need to be able to forget a loss to be able to move on and to be successful in your next fight. But on the winning side you need to be able to forget a win so you don't get stuck in this pattern of like, "I'm unstoppable". So there has to be a level of amnesia for a fighter.

  Rich Franklin

  Moving, Fighting, Successful

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• My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we are a species with amnesia; that we've lost the record of our story going back thousands of years before so-called history began, and I think that if we could go back to that dark epoch, we would discover many astounding things about ourselves.

  Graham Hancock

  Dark, Thinking, Years

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• Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.

  Rick Riordan

  Damnation, Jason, Excuse

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• Everything that I spent my entire life dedicated to, which is this art of mentalism, of magic... I don't see it and feel it and experience it like I first did when I was getting involved in this art. I try to look at it as a spectator but unless I get amnesia I still can't overlook that. I can appreciate the performance but I would love to be fooled.

  Criss Angel

  Art, Appreciate, Magic

  "Criss Angel Creates Phenomenon!". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 14, 2007.

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• I had amnesia once or twice.

  Steven Wright

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• Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering, even amnesia.

  Faith Baldwin

  Kissing

  Faith Baldwin (1972). “One more time”, Holt McDougal

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• Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.

  Babe Ruth

  Yankees, Cases, Brands

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• The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

  Seal

  People, Missing, Suffering

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• The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

  Robert Smithson

  Memories, May

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.131, Univ of California Press

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• People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Forgotten, Prohibition

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• To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia

  Jim Noel

  Goodbye, Saying Goodbye, Grieving

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• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  Jack Horner

  Character, Suffering, Stories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes" by Brian Switek, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.

  Tom Robbins

  Caring, Knowing, Ecstasy

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• Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism that creates the foundation for sapping democracy of any political substance and moral vitality. The predominance of the disimagination machine in American society, along with its machinery of social death and historical amnesia, seeps into in all aspects of life, suggesting that young people and others marginalized by class, race and ethnicity have been abandoned.

  Henry Giroux

  Race, Ethnicity, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.

  Tom Hayden

  Home, Past, Passing On

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• Heartbreak is its own form of amnesia.

  Lauren Kate

  Form

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• Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Past, Slips, Past Present And Future

  Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.33, Macmillan

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