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• At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.

  Hillary Clinton

  Encouragement, Reading, Thinking

  "Fox News is ready for Hillary" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2014.

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• Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That's not an education. I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing.
  Frank Allen

  Bel Kaufman

  Real, Cheater, Next Day

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.381, Open Road Media

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• I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem to be qualitatively different. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. Instead of memorizing facts, we were asked to think in clear, logical steps. Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.

  Steven Chu

  Sports, Adventure, Science

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• The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

  Daniel Quinn

  Journey, Worry, Accomplish

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.40, Bantam

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• As an actor, you are in a unique position because you’re not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Writing, Unique, Actors

  "Jesse Eisenberg On ‘Why Stop Now,’ Writing Plays & Jeremy Lin". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• - L, did you know we’re reenacting the Salem witch trials in English tomorrow? - Haven’t been memorizing your case file? Do you even look in your backpack anymore? - Did you know my dad is videotaping it? I do. Because I walked in on his lunch date with Mrs. English. - Ewww. - What should we do? - I guess we should start calling her Ms. English? - Not funny, L.

  Kami Garcia

  Dad, Witch Trials, Lunch

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• 'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Cards, Records

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• Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

  Bill Mumy

  Running, Giving, Wife

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• Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Sight, Leaving

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• You came here a fighter, Maddie. Maybe you'd lost a round or two, but you were on your feet. You want to stay in Lucky Harbor? Fight for it. You want a relationship with your sisters? Fight for it." "What about you? What about a relationship with you?" He pulled back to look into her face as if memorizing her features. His voice, when he spoke, was low and gravelly with emotion. "I'm already yours. Always have been. All you have to do is step into the ring.

  Jill Shalvis

  Fighting, Two, Voice

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• When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.

  Greta Gerwig

  Block, School, College

  "Greta Gerwig on Damsels In Distress and tap-dancing into a role". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Kisten, please don't leave me," I begged, and his eyes opened. "I'm cold," he said, fear rising in his blue eyes. I held him tighter. "I'm holding you. It's going to be okay." "Tell Ivy," he said with a gasp, clenching in on himself. "Tell Ivy that it wasn't her fault. And tell her that at the end... you remember love. I don't think... we lose our souls... at all. I think God keeps them for us until we... come home. I love you, Rachel." "I love you, too, Kisten," I sobbed, and as I watched, his eyes, memorizing my face, silvered, and he died.

  Kim Harrison

  Love You, Home, Eye

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• You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing - memory is not intelligence. But the whole of humanity has been deceived for centuries and told indirectly that the memory is intelligence. Your schools, your colleges, your universities are not trying to find your intelligence; they are trying to find out who is capable of memorizing more. And now we know perfectly well that memory is a mechanical thing. A computer can have memory, but a computer cannot have intelligence.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, School, College

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• I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

  Charles Van Doren

  Book, Lists, Facts

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• After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Teacher, Years, Voice

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• It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.

  Stephen Root

  Fun, Lines, Dresses

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• I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.

  Michael Weatherly

  Terrible, Ads

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• Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Book, Reading, Guessing

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• I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay.

  Janet Fitch

  Girl, Mother, Running

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• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  Olivia Colman

  Real, Thinking, Trying

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• Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, College, Academic

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1910). “The Philistine”

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• When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Cat, Years, Class

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• Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Understanding, Knowledge And Wisdom, Higher

  "'Kitab al-Kafi' ('The Sufficient Book')". Book by Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni, Volume 4,

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• I shut the bathroom door and caught sight of my face in the mirror. I had no idea how quickly it was to change, to fade. If I had, I would have stared at my reflection, memorizing it. It was the last time I would look into a real mirror for more than a decade.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Real, Reflection, Doors

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• In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Keys, House

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.332, Penguin UK

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