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• "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Years, Half

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• Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wise, Home, Learning

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• I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Math, Feelings, Lectures

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

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• From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud.

  Augusta Savage

  Brother, Fall, Rain

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• When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.

  Andrew Rannells

  Character, Kids, Gay

  "STAGE TO SCREENS: Andrew Rannells, From The Book of Mormon to TV's "The New Normal"". Interview with Christopher Wallenberg, www.playbill.com. September 11, 2012.

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• I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.

  Ted Shackelford

  Television, World, Firsts

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• I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Names, People

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• Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in `Annie Laurie`, but I can't recall that it helped much.

  Lillian Gish

  Writing, Asking Why, Fans

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We are not seeking to impose a recall.

  Joel Klein

  Seeking

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• Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Might, Today, Dirt

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• Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Circles, Wish

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.

  Minor White

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

  Vikram Seth

  Dream, Drinking, California

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• Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted.

  David Shields

  Art, Reality, Economic Models

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• The universe is pregnant with signs that recall the presence of the Creator.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Creator, Pregnant, Universe

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brother, Book, Keys

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.117, GENERAL PRESS

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• Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ruins, Should

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.21, Arcade Publishing

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• By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Depth, Shame

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.

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• Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Trying, Events, Remember

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• But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves without a fortune in electrical and electronic equipment. We had no fancy equipment and did not miss it.

  Maureen Johnson

  Children, Fun, Years

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• I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Years, Names

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• We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.

  Nelson Mandela

  Moving, Past, Forgiving

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.

  Evander Holyfield

  Heart, Fighting, Garden

  FaceBook post by Evander Holyfield from Nov 15, 2015

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• Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and defined. A period of gestation then sets in, during which these issues are mulled over. You put them in your mind and consciously or unconsciously work at them at odd hours of the day or night - even at work. It is somewhat analogous to trying to place a name on the face of someone you've met before. Often the solution to a problem comes to you in much the same way you eventually recall the name.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Night, Keys, Gestation Period

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• On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Powerful, Ambition, Generosity

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