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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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• Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.

  Vivian Mercier

  Girl, Dream, Sex

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• I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Book, Struggle, School

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• It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip Thou dost not fall.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Fall, Soul, Steps

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.53

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• Tears and fears and feeling proud
  To say I love you, right out loud
  Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
  I've looked at life that way.
  But now old friends are acting strange
  They shake their heads, they say I've changed
  Something's lost, but something's gained
  In living every day
  I've looked at life from both sides now
  From win and lose, and still somehow
  It's life's illusions I recall
  I really don't know life at all

  Joni Mitchell

  Dream, Song, Love You

  "Both Sides Now" (song) (1967)

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• The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Book, Valuable

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• To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Memories, Remember, Recollection

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• I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Enemy, Former

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• Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

  H. L. Mencken

  Interesting, Literature, World

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• It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Trouble, Pleasant

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• Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Night, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.214, Virginia Woolf

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• No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly.

  Richard Hakluyt

  History, Ignorant, Divinity

  Richard Hakluyt (1935). “The Original Writings & Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts”

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• I still recall the day when I became known not just as Gay Brewer, but 'Gay Brewer, winner of the 1967 Masters.' The reality of the title – the biggest thrill I've had in golf – is something that can never be taken away.

  Gay Brewer

  Taken, Golf, Gay

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• I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.

  Roland Joffe

  Fun, Thinking, Feelings

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• It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million

  Al Jardine

  Safe Haven, Thinking, California

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• My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.

  Catherine Hicks

  Christian, Home, Parent

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• What's amazing to me now is that I actually recall fixating on the fact that my thighs a-l-m-o-s-t touched at the top....If I could go back in time and slap my eighteen-year-old self, I would. I would tell her to snap out of it, because that's the best you thighs will ever be. You should take pictures of your thighs right now so you can remember how amazing they were!

  Anita Renfroe

  Self, Years, Facts

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• We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

  Daniel Pauly

  Motivation, Inspiration, World

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